"He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some calims in these negociations" leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children" 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" forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot
A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease
To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender
If people abandon ship, they get off a ship because it is sinking. if someone does something with abandon, they behave in a careless or uncontrolled way, without thinking or caring about what they are doing with reckless/wild abandon
If you abandon an idea or way of thinking, you stop having that idea or thinking in that way. Logic had prevailed and he had abandoned the idea. = give up
disapproval If you say that someone does something with abandon, you mean that they behave in a wild, uncontrolled way and do not think or care about how they should behave. He has spent money with gay abandon see also abandoned
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; often in a bad sense
If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so. He claimed that his parents had abandoned him The road is strewn with abandoned vehicles
"He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some calims in these negociations"
To relinquish all claim to; used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against
If you abandon an activity or piece of work, you stop doing it before it is finished. The authorities have abandoned any attempt to distribute food = give up continue
the trait of lacking restraint or control; freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon"