دیکشنری پایش - Longman Dictionary Of Contemporary English - 5th Edition

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Abandon:

I. a·ban·don1 W3 AC verb [transitive]

[Word Family: verb: abandon; noun: abandonment; adjective: abandoned]

 

[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: abondoner, from abandon 'surrendering', from a bandon 'into someone's power']

1. to leave someone, especially someone you are responsible for ? abandoned:

How could she abandon her own child?

 

2. to go away from a place, vehicle etc permanently, especially because the situation makes it impossible for you to stay SYN leave ? abandoned:

We had to abandon the car and walk the rest of the way.

Fearing further attacks, most of the population had abandoned the city.

3. to stop doing something because there are too many problems and it is impossible to continue:

The game had to be abandoned due to bad weather.

They abandoned their attempt to recapture the castle.

Because of the fog they abandoned their idea of driving.

4. to stop having a particular idea, belief, or attitude:

They were accused of abandoning their socialist principles.

Rescuers had abandoned all hope of finding any more survivors.

 

5. abandon yourself to something literary to feel an emotion so strongly that you let it control you completely:

She abandoned herself to grief.

 

6. abandon ship to leave a ship because it is sinking

>abandonment noun [uncountable]

II. abandon2 noun [uncountable]

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

They drank and smoked with reckless abandon.