Abandonment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABANDONMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being abandoned
• the action or fact of abandoning or being abandoned
• The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
• The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
• The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
• The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.
• Careless freedom or ease; abandon.
• the act of giving something up
• withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility
• the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to give up to the control or influence of another person or agent; to give up with the intent of never again claiming a right or interest in

Words related to ABANDONMENT

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Words that contain ABANDONMENT

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How to use ABANDONMENT in a sentence

• In order to cover the deficit occasioned by the abandonment of the brandy monopoly, the government has made a small increase in the poll-tax.
• She says it makes her tremble to see my utter abandonment to joyful dreams.
• He saw in it the abandonment of the great principle of protection to persons and property in every State of the Union.
• The fire had gone out while I slept, and I felt cold and stiff, but my abandonment of restraint had relieved me, and my fear was now no more than a vague unrest.
• It must gently persuade them that a true national prosperity is not the result of a total abandonment of the community to the culture of one staple.
• He felt this abandonment bitterly, but could not surrender the all-absorbing passion which was destroying him.
• The English required the abandonment of the works upon the canal of Mardyck, intended to replace the harbor of Dunkerque the Hollanders claimed commercial advantages.
• Their act of treacherous violence had, of course, caused the immediate abandonment of the proposed treaty.
• It was the triumph of civilization, to behold every effort made to soothe calamity, without any abandonment of the forfeit justly claimed on behalf of society.
• The abandonment of the Scottish campaign soon followed.
• Universal triumph and absolute security soon betray a State into abandonment of that discipline, civil and military, by which its victories were secured.
• This land, of present mournful interest, had fallen back, owing to the negligence or abandonment of its owners, into the wild character of primitive nature.
• I had retired after five and twenty years of constant occupation in public affairs, and total abandonment of my own.
• But were I their historian, I should not equally applaud their total abandonment of their foreign affairs.
• The young Apache stood looking down at the little figure, so graceful in its boyish abandonment of gesture, so pitiful in its broken unconsciousness.
• Even in her grief, her abandonment, she was unlike all other women.
• The alarmed sultan consulted the learned doctors of the Koran, and received for reply that the abandonment of the refugees would be contrary to the law of Mohammed.
• They were again occupied after another peace was established, and this condition of alternate occupancy and abandonment seems to have existed until within quite recent time.
• It means oftentimes the abandonment of prejudice or the giving up of an opinion which we have discovered to have no foundation.
• It did however swing over the Bishop of Princhester to an immediate and complete abandonment of both drink and tobacco.
• To him the glorious abandonment which is the way to achievement is possible.
• Yet if ever his face betrayed utter abandonment to amazement it was now.
• From a dogged abandonment to his fate, a ray of hope lit up the darkness that seemed to have closed over him.
• With Madison the break does not seem to have come from any positive ill-feeling, but was rather an abandonment of intercourse as the differences of opinion became more pronounced.
• Lack of faithful service is causing the abandonment of the family home, and the fear of the obstacles in the way of establishing new ones threatens the whole social fabric.
• To abandon the principle for a month is to open the way for its total abandonment.
• The abandonment of the sovereign right to make war is essential for the future security of peace.
• Buller ordered a general retirement and the abandonment of the guns.
• There was a greater moral abandonment than would ever be known.
• This does not mean a separation of interests nor an abandonment of common counsel.
• Alicia herself was so earnestly in favor of assisting in my experiment, that she declared she would prefer death to its abandonment.
• For about nine weeks he made so little progress that his crews began to clamour for the abandonment of the expedition.

Similar words containing ABANDONM without suffix ent

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