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Definition of Abandon

Abandon To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense. To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Abandonment; relinquishment. A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease. Related Definitions: Abandonment, Absolutely, After, Against, All, Allegiance, An, Artificial, As, At, Attempt, Bad, Banish, By, Careless, Cast, Claim, Complete, Concern, Connection, Constraint, Covered, Damage, Desert, Drive, Ease, Entirely, Expel, Fidelity, Forsake, Freedom, From, Give, Gives, Giving, In, Insured, Loss, May, Natural, Often, On, One, Or, Out, Peril, Person, Policy, Property, Quit, Reject, Relinquish, Relinquishment, Remain, Renounce, Self, Self-Control, Sense, Surrender, The, To, Up, Used, Utterly, When, Which, Whom, With, Without, Yield

Abandon Quotations There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. Thomas A. Edison The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. George Weinberg The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. George Washington To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. Albert Camus

Abandon Translations abandon in Afrikaans is verlaat abandon in Dutch is prijsgeven, afleggen, opgeven abandon in Finnish is alistua abandon in German is verlassen, preisgeben abandon in Italian is lasciare, abbandonare abandon in Latin is dimitto, proicio, derelinquo, desero, destituo abandon in Norwegian is forlate abandon in Spanish is expedir, abandonar

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