abandon
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(verb) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas, claims, etc.; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give in these negociations" |
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Synonyms: give, give up |
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(verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children" |
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Synonyms: desert, desolate, forsake, lurch |
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Related Words: ditch, leave, maroon, strand, walk out |
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(verb) give up with the intent of never claiming again; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead" |
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Synonyms: give up |
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Related Words: foreswear, quit, relinquish, renounce |
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(verb) forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot" |
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Related Words: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck, chuck out, consign, discard, dispense with, dispose, ditch, fling, forfeit, forgo, give up, put away, render, throw away, throw out, throw overboard, toss, toss away, toss out, waive |
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(noun) the trait of lacking restraint or control; freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon" |
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Synonyms: unconstraint, wantonness |
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Related Words: unrestraint |
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(noun) extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger" |
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Synonyms: wildness |
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Related Words: passion, passionateness |
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(verb) leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight" |
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Synonyms: empty, vacate |
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Related Words: go away, go forth, leave |
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