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abandon

English

  1. 🔊 the trait of lacking restraint or control
    “she danced with abandon”
  2. 🔊 a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
    “the wildness of his anger”
  3. 🔊 stop maintaining or insisting on
    “He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage”
  4. 🔊 leave someone who needs or counts on you
    “The mother deserted her children”
  5. 🔊 give up with the intent of never claiming again
    “Abandon your life to God”
  6. 🔊 forsake, leave behind
    “We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot”
  7. 🔊 leave behind empty
    “You must vacate your office by tonight”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 abandonar to abandon, to leave

Similar words

wantonness unconstraint wildness give up forsake desolate desert vacate empty give up abandonment abjection abjure abort abscond acknowledge defeat ardency ardor back out beat a retreat beg a truce beg off belay boundlessness