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abandon English

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Definitions in simple English

abandon

If you abandon something, you go away from it with no plan to return. Many teens abandon all chances of a successful future when they drop out of school. After much thought, they abandoned the idea as being too difficult. The government abandons after-school programs when money is tight. If you abandon something, you give up control of it. They danced wildly down the street, abandoning themselves to the night and the moon. The woodcutter and his wife considered abandoning Hansel and Gretel in the forest.

abandon

Abandon is a state where you do not control yourself. In these games, kids shoot and blow each other up with reckless abandon. The man dove into the pool with reckless abandon.

abandon

forsake, leave behind We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot (= give up) 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 (= vacate, empty) leave behind empty; move out of You must vacate your office by tonight (= give up) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry she danced with abandon (= desert) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch The mother deserted her children (= wildness) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity the wildness of his anger

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Conjugation abandon conjugation

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abandon · verb

Examples abandon examples

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Simple sentences

He decided to abandon law for art.
Don't abandon hope.
Tom won't abandon the idea.
There are days where I feel like my brain wants to abandon me.
The crew had to abandon the sinking ship.
Abandon ship!
All hands, abandon ship!
Don't abandon me!
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
I will never abandon you.
The captain gave the order to abandon the ship.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in.
His friend promised never to abandon him.
Tom is stuck in his sleeping bag. Should we abandon him?
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Why did you abandon me?
We had to abandon our plan.
I was forced to abandon the plan.
We have to abandon the plan.
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it.
I think it's time for me to abandon that idea.

Movie subtitles

How, not one but two why would she abandon me!
She probably has her reasons. Who can abandon their own flesh and blood?
Because Ben would never abandon me.
Let us abandon this life of crime.
I am forced to abandon the home that is no longer mine.
The Church opens its arms to you. but if you reject it, the Church will abandon you. and you will be alone. alone!
But you won't abandon me?
Tell them to abandon wars and I'll give them the medicine for the white plague.
Never abandon a friend in need.
I'll never abandon you.
You can't abandon that after all your preparations.
Good luck will be with us. It will not abandon the two of us, waiting a baby.
We're going to abandon ship!
PILOT TO CREW, ABANDON SHIP.
Why did you abandon me, Odilon?
Abandon you?
So you refuse to abandon the notion of subjugating humans, despite the probable outcome?
Did you abandon your comrades and escape, 009?
Oh, I was afraid I couldn't get it back on with that same air of abandon.
A woman who's learned the abandon of a savage. yet she'd be at home in Mayfair.
Better abandon the wall before it's too late.
Give orders to abandon the wall.
If you could go, you wouldn't abandon us?
Abandon ship.
Tomorrow's work? You can't abandon that.
Get him out of here and abandon him.
If you abandon me now, I will hate you forever.
I can't just abandon him now.
No matter how much we do for men, they abandon us when it suits them.
To abandon your individual wishes!
It's not nice to abandon someone who is ill.
It's not nice to abandon someone who is desperate.
We can't abandon them.
Should we just abandon convention and introduce ourselves?
You were ready to leave your husband and abandon your children?
Orpheus, if you abandon your wife, it's only normal that she should call on those who love her.

News and current affairs

It is time to abandon neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus.
To abandon the country again would be criminal folly.
Robert Rubin and Kent Conrad warned him that the press would not interpret his testimony as being balanced, and that Congress would interpret it as an excuse to abandon fiscal discipline.
A smoother international distribution of power, even in a global system that is less than fully democratic, would pose fewer temptations to abandon the prudent exercise of power.
Like Franklin Roosevelt, who acted very cautiously in trying to persuade American opinion to abandon isolationism in the 1930's, Merkel has proceeded cautiously on saving the euro.
Today, with technology making underwater as well as fisheries resources more exploitable in the area, it is impossible to abandon this patrimony.
It is even suggested that some countries might abandon EMU if this process continues - a threat that, if carried out, would amount to economic suicide.
Instead, it is time to abandon this unrealistic goal in favor of an achievable, targeted, and cost-effective approach.
Such changes put pressure on universal banks to abandon riskier investment-bank activities in order to operate more freely.
But that does not mean we should abandon the idea.
China's exceptional tough talk does not necessarily mean that it intends to abandon Kim Jong-un's regime; but, at the very least, it does suggest that a radical shift in China's policy toward North Korea might no longer be unthinkable.
The North appears to be convinced that, with nuclear weapons, it can maintain complete diplomatic independence, and that China, fearing nuclear blackmail, will never abandon it.
China has not decided to abandon North Korea.
But if the JOBS Act does not succeed, we should not abandon the idea, but try to modify it.
But the time has come to abandon the Jubilee movement's humanitarian approach and focus instead on the legal aspect.
The key to success will be America's ability to retain the best - and abandon the worst - of that most American of notions: exceptionalism.
Immigrants need to get to work and so they buy, sell, drive, and abandon cars in a parallel market.
Nor will she abandon special relations with Russia, to which every German chancellor since Adenauer has attached major importance.
India cannot and will not abandon its territorial sovereignty, or its pursuit of secure land borders or a greater balance in trade.
Rather than trying to mount a last-ditch defense of the fixed exchange rate, the government, at the suggestion of the Bank of England, agreed to abandon the gold standard and devalue the pound.
It would be dangerous for the eurozone's highly indebted countries to abandon austerity now.
The temptation in Britain simply to abandon what appears to be a sinking ship and go it gloriously alone is growing stronger.
The US eventually had to abandon its fantasies about Western-style Arab democracy, but it ironically left the Iranians carrying the torch of democracy in the region.

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