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wantonness, unconstraint, wildness, give up, forsake, desolate, desert, vacate, empty Definition: the trait of lacking restraint or control; freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon";a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger";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 up some calims in these negociations";leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children";leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight";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";forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot";
Hyponyms: expose, walk out, ditch, maroon, strand, foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish, chuck, dispense with, forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, consign Grouped Verbs: collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder, move over, ease up, yield Derivational Morphology:
abandonment, forsaking, desertion, defection, deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter, defector, forlornness, loneliness, desolation, giving up
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