| abandon | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. abandon, unconstraint, wantonness | the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry.; "she danced with abandon" |
| ~ unrestraint | the quality of lacking restraint. |
| n. (feeling) | 2. abandon, wildness | a feeling of extreme emotional intensity.; "the wildness of his anger" |
| ~ passion, passionateness | a strong feeling or emotion. |
| v. (possession) | 3. abandon | forsake, leave behind.; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot" |
| ~ cast aside, cast away, chuck out, discard, throw away, toss away, toss out, cast out, dispose, put away, throw out, fling, toss | throw or cast away.; "Put away your worries" |
| ~ chuck, ditch | throw away.; "Chuck these old notes" |
| ~ dispense with | forgo or do or go without. |
| ~ forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forego, forgo | lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime.; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property" |
| ~ consign | commit forever; commit irrevocably. |
| v. (possession) | 4. abandon, give up | give up with the intent of never claiming again.; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead" |
| ~ foreswear, relinquish, renounce, quit | turn away from; give up.; "I am foreswearing women forever" |
| v. (motion) | 5. abandon, empty, vacate | leave behind empty; move out of.; "You must vacate your office by tonight" |
| ~ go forth, leave, go away | go away from a place.; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. abandon, give up | stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims.; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations" |
| ~ ease up, give way, move over, yield, give | move in order to make room for someone for something.; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" |
| ~ cave in, collapse, fall in, give way, founder, give, break | break down, literally or metaphorically.; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. abandon, desert, desolate, forsake | leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.; "The mother deserted her children" |
| ~ leave | go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness.; "She left a mess when she moved out"; "His good luck finally left him"; "her husband left her after 20 years of marriage"; "she wept thinking she had been left behind" |
| ~ expose | abandon by leaving out in the open air.; "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"; "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned" |
| ~ walk out | leave suddenly, often as an expression of disapproval.; "She walked out on her husband and children" |
| ~ ditch | forsake.; "ditch a lover" |
| ~ maroon, strand | leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue.; "the travellers were marooned" |
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