abandon

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbæn.dn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbæn.dn̩/
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /əˈbæn.dən/

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• From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (“at, to”) + bandon (“jurisdiction, control”),[1] from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus,[2] bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command”) (compare English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”). See also ban, banal.
• Displaced Middle English forleten (“to abandon”), from Old English forlǣtan, anforlǣtan; see forlet; and Middle English forleven (“to leave behind, abandon”), from Old English forlǣfan; see forleave.

abandon (third-person singular simple present abandons, present participle abandoning, simple past and past participle abandoned)

1. (transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)][1]
   • (Can we date this quote?), Macaulay, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     He abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice.

2. (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)][1]
   • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 188, number 23, page 19:

     In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]   The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

3. (transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. [First attested in the late 15^th century.][1]
   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening‎, page 3:

     Hope was overthrown, and yet could not be abandoned.

   Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16^th century.][1]
5. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16^th century until the mid 17^th century.][1]
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act I, scene ii:

     Being all this time abandoned from your bed.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Nicholas Udall, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     that he might […] abandon them from him

6. (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. [First attested in the mid 18^th century.][1]
7. (transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.

• abandonment
• abandonware

• From French, from Old French abandon, from Old French abondonner.

abandon (countable and uncountable, plural abandons)

1. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19^th century.][1][3]
   • 1954, Gore Vidal, Messiah:

     I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'

   • 2007 November 4, David M. Halbfinger, “The City That Never Sleeps, Comatose”, in The New York Times‎:

     They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.

2. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.

• (giving up to impulses): wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint

• IPA^(key): /a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -dɔ̃

abandon m (plural abandons)

1. surrender
2. abandonment
3. (uncountable) complete neglect

• abandon scolaire
• à l'abandon

• “abandon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

abandon m (plural abandons)

1. abandonment

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• Dizionari Furlan Talian

• From Old French abandon, from Old French abondonner.

abandon

1. (not comparable) Freely; entirely.
   • 1330, Arthour and Merlin:

     His ribbes and scholder fel adoun,/Men might se the liver abandoun.

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Borrowed from French abandon.

abandon n (plural abandonuri)

1. abandonment
2. renouncement

• abandona