Abandon

Verb

 * 1)  To give up control of, to surrender.
 * 2)  To leave behind, to desert.
 * 3)  To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
 * 4)  To relinquish a claim to property to underwriters.
 * 5) a rejection of responsibility in violation of one's obligation or oath

Noun

 * 1) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Adjectives for Abandon
delightful; gleeful; unconscious; passionate; drunken; increasing; intoxicated; idolatrous; hilarious; airy; fanatical; reckless; dissolute; emotional; melodramatic; universal; insane; humorous; desolate; mystic; sensual; cruel; wanton; natural.

Adverbs for Abandon
shamelessly; ingloriously; regretfully; dramatically; definitely; recklessly; simultaneously; reluctantly; prudently; despairingly; eventually; inhumanly; cravenly; wantonly; childishly; temporarily; pusillanimously; faint-heartedly; pitiably; haplessly; remorsefully; ruefully; sullenly; woefully; wretchedly; contritely; dejectedly; dolefully; mournfully; dispiritedly; mirthlessly; tragically.

Synonyms for Abandon

 * (giving up to impulses) wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint
 * (give up) abdicate, cede, desert, forego, forsake, give up, leave, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, retire, surrender, withdraw, yield
 * reject, repudiate, discontinue, sacrifice, vacate, forswear.

Antonyms for Abandon
undertake, pursue, cherish, keep, maintain, uphold, adopt, support, occupy, retain.

Derived terms
aband; abandoned; abandonee; abandoner; abandonware

Related terms
abandonment; abandonware

Thesaurus
discard, discontinue, disgorge, dismiss, dispense with, dispose of, disregardfulness, dissoluteness, disuse, ditch, do without, drop, drop it, drop out, drop the subject, dump, earnestness, ease, easiness, ecstasy, egregiousness, eighty-six, eliminate, end, enormousness, evacuate, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, exuberance, fabulousness, faith, faithfulness, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fidelity, fire, fire and fury, forget, forget about it, forget it, forgetfulness, forgo, forsake, forswear, freedom, frenzy, fun, furor, furore, fury, games, get along without, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, giantism, gigantism, give away, give over, give up, gluttony, go back on, goldbrick, goof off, halt, hand over, hastiness, have done with, heartiness, heat, heatedness, heedlessness, hold, hyperbole, hypertrophy, hysteria, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, impassionedness, implore mercy, impulsiveness, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, incontinence, indifference, indiscipline, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, insouciance, intemperance, intemperateness, intensity, intentness, intoxication, irrepressibility, jettison, jilt, jump, junk, kick, kiss good-bye, knock it off, lack of foresight, laxity, laxness, lay aside, lay off, laziness, leave, leave behind, leave flat, leave loose ends, leave off, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let it go, let slip, liberty, license, licentiousness, looseness, loyalty, madness, make a sacrifice, malinger, maroon, miss, monstrousness, moral pollution, moral turpitude, naturalness, nimiety, noncoercion, nonintimidation, oblivion, offhandedness, omit, orgasm, orgy, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, part with, pass over, pass up, passion, passionateness, perfunctoriness, permissiveness, play, pray for quarter, pretermit, procrastinate, profligacy, pull out, push aside, put aside, quit, quit cold, quitclaim, radicalism, rage, rapture, ravishment, recant, recklessness, refrain, regardlessness, reject, relinquish, remove, render up, renege, renounce, reprobacy, repudiate, resign, resolution, retire, retract, retreat, riotousness, rottenness, run out on, sacrifice, say goodbye to, say uncle, scrap, scrub, seriousness, set aside, shake, shirk, shrug off, sincerity, skip, slack, slough, sneeze at, spare, spirit, spontaneity, sport, sprezzatura, stand down, stay, stop, surrender, swear off, tactlessness, take leave of, take the pledge, tearing passion, terminate, think nothing of, thoughtlessness, throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throw up, thrust aside, too much, too-muchness, toss overboard, towering rage, transport, trifle, turn away from, turn up, turpitude, unconscionableness, unconstrained, unconstraint, uncontrol, undueness, unheedfulness, uninhibitedness, unmindfulness, unpreparedness, unreadiness, unreasonableness, unreserve, unrestrainedness, unrestraint, unruliness, unsolicitousness, unsolicitude, unstrictness, unthinkingness, vacate, vanish, vehemence, waive, wantonness, warmth, wildness, withdraw, yield, yield the palm, zeal, abandonment, abjection, abjure, abort, abscond, acknowledge defeat, ardency, ardor, back out, beat a retreat, beg a truce, beg off, belay, boundlessness, bow out, break the habit, brush aside, brush off, cancel, capitulate, careless abandon, carelessness, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, casualness, cease, cede, chuck, come to terms, commitment, committedness, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, craze, cry off, cry pax, cry quits, cursoriness, cut, cut it out, debasement, decadence, decadency, dedication, deep-six, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, delirium, demoralization, depart from, depravation, depravedness, depravity, desert, desist, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, disappear,

Pronunciation

 * /əˈbændən/

Etymology 1
From abandoner:, formed from a: + bandon:, from  bannum:, of  origin, from  *ban, from  (compare  ban:), from. Displaced forleten "to abandon" (from  forlǣtan, anforlǣtan) and  forleven "to leave behind, abandon" (from  forlǣfan).

Etymology 2
From abandon:, from abondonner:.

Translations

 * Amharic: ተወ (tewe) he abandoned; ተወች (tewoch) she abandoned

Shorthand

 * Gregg Versions Centennial, Series 90, DJS, Simplified: a - b - a - n - dn
 * Versions Anniversary, Pre-Anniversary: a - b - a - nd

Noun

 * 1) surrender
 * 2) abandonment
 * 3)  complete neglect

Derived terms

 * abandon scolaire
 * à l'abandon

Etymology
abandon:.

Noun

 * 1) abandonment
 * 2) renouncement