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abandonment
  1. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. [Late 16th century.]
  2. The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
  3. An abandoned building or structure.
  4. (law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author. [Early 19th century.]
  5. (law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against. [Early 19th century.]
  6. The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
  7. A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
  8. The self-surrender to an outside influence. [Mid 19th century.]
  9. Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions. [Mid 19th century.]
  10. Synonyms:
      11. desertion, dereliction, betrayal, forsaking, neglect, leaving, jilting, stranding, jettison, leaving behind, relinquishment, shunning, disloyalty, perfidy, faithlessness, backsliding, defection, rebellion, recantation, treachery, apostasy, heresy, revolt, disaffection, estrangement, absconding, conversion, decamping, deconversion, dissent, treason, unfaithfulness, alienation, disownment, rejection, repudiation, abandonment of belief, renunciation of belief, recreancy, tergiversation, recreance, falseness, reversion, flight, withdrawal, retreat … more
  11. Examples:
      12. “In what ways did his abandonment of his family parallel his abandonment of liberalism?”
      “In what ways did his abandonment of his family parallel his abandonment of liberalism?”
      “Ellis seems to believe that Bell's abandonment of his men constitutes a serious moral lapse.”
abandon
  1. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19th century.]
  2. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. recklessness, uninhibitedness, wildness, unrestraint, wantonness, abandonment, intemperance, licentiousness, spontaneity, spontaneousness, thoughtlessness, unconstraint, unruliness, disregard, ease, freedom, immoderation, impetuosity, impulsiveness, lightheartedness, naturalness, dash, impulse, lack of inhibition, lack of restraint, wild impulse, careless freedom, casualness, nonchalance, incontinence, rashness, carelessness, informality, familiarity, composure, easiness, poise, insouciance, readiness, lack of reserve, debauchery, depravity, artlessness, immorality, dissoluteness, dissipation, heedlessness, shamelessness, irresponsibility, haste … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The chef would proceed to add spices to the stew with seeming abandon.”
abandoning
  1. An act in which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment, neglect
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cancelation, cancellation, revocation, repeal, rescission, abandonment, recall, abortion, calling, dropping, recision, calling off, abrogation, annulment, nullification, invalidation, abolition, quashing, dissolution, withdrawal, retraction, repudiation, reversal, elimination, overturning, termination, undoing, overruling, deletion, canceling, retracting, revoking, abolishing, cancelling, voiding, rescindment, negation, abolishment, defeasance, avoidance, abatement, rescinding, voidance, countermanding, ending, annihilation, obliteration, overthrow, stopping, setting aside … more
abandonness
  1. The state, quality, or condition of abandon; abandonment
  2. Examples:
      3. “Ten thousand particulars are now told of the female historian's insolence, capriciousness, and even abandonness.”
abandonedness
  1. The state or quality of being abandoned.
abandoner
  1. One who abandons. [Late 16th century.]
  2. Synonyms:
      3. renegade, deserter, apostate, defector, mutineer, runaway, heretic, dissident, outlaw, iconoclast, insurgent, schismatic, escapee, exile, forsaker, fugitive, refugee, turnabout … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “On one level, therefore, this fantasy of being the abandoner rather than the abandoned may seem a form of denial.”
      “We are in transports of indignation against an iniquitous legislature, the protector of the strong and the rich, the abandoner of the weak and the poor.”
      “You plunderer of album rock, you late adapter of rap, you trivializer of politics, you abandoner of music.”
abandons
  1. plural of abandon
  2. (plural only, archaic, British slang) Abandoned children; foundlings.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. recklessness, uninhibitedness, wildness, unrestraint, wantonness, abandonment, intemperance, licentiousness, spontaneity, spontaneousness, thoughtlessness, unconstraint, unruliness, disregard, ease, freedom, immoderation, impetuosity, impulsiveness, lightheartedness, naturalness, dashes, impulses … more
abandonments
  1. plural of abandonment
  2. Synonyms:
      3. desertions, derelictions, betrayals, forsakings, neglects, jiltings, strandings, jettisons, shunnings, relinquishments, ostracisms, brushoffs, spurns, coldnesses, disregards, exclusions, rebuffs, repudiations, snubbings, snubs, spurnings, slights, inattentions, excommunications, aloofnesses, blackballings, indifferences, iciness, rejections, estrangements, eschewals, blacklistings, avoidances, denunciations, ignorings, brush-offs, cold shoulders, bum's rushes, kicks in the teeth, heedlessnesses, oversights, scornings, scorns, inadvertences, inconsiderations, defaults, thoughtlessness, coolnesses, disloyalties … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The meeting may be the only National Hunt racing in Britain this weekend, with abandonments likely elsewhere due to the weather.”
      “Field studies of small-scale fishponds in Zimbabwe and Zambia have shown a large number of project failures and pond abandonments.”
      “She drew attention to the sharp decline in the number of abandonments, in particular of newborn babies.”
abandonings
  1. plural of abandoning
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cancelations, cancellations, revocation, repeals, rescissions, abandonment, recall, abortion, callings, droppings, recision, quashings, termination, dissolution, repudiations, withdrawal, overturnings, reversal, retraction, deletion, invalidation, abrogations, undoings, overrulings, elimination, annulment, nullification, abolitions, rescindments, voidings, negation, abolishment, defeasances, avoidance, abatements, voidances, endings, annihilation, stoppings, overthrows, obliteration, extirpation, disannulment, removals, eradications, discontinuation, vitiations, suppression, destruction, erasure … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins and we cannot afford all these abandonings.”
abandoners
  1. plural of abandoner
  2. Synonyms:
      3. renegades, deserters, apostates, defectors, mutineers, runaways, heretics, dissidents, outlaws, iconoclasts, insurgents, schismatics, escapees, exile, forsakers, fugitives, refugees, turnabouts … more
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