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a⋅ban⋅doned

  [uh-ban-duhnd]
Use abandoned in a Sentence
–adjective
1. forsaken or deserted: an abandoned building; an abandoned kitten.
2. unrestrained or uncontrolled; uninhibited: She danced with abandoned enthusiasm.
3. utterly lacking in moral restraints; shameless; wicked: an abandoned and dissolute ruler.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see abandon 1 , -ed 2

Related forms:
a⋅ban⋅doned⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. discarded, rejected. 3. See immoral.

a⋅ban⋅don

1  [uh-ban-duhn]
–verb (used with object)
1. to leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert: to abandon one's farm; to abandon a child; to abandon a sinking ship.
2. to give up; discontinue; withdraw from: to abandon a research project; to abandon hopes for a stage career.
3. to give up the control of: to abandon a city to an enemy army.
4. to yield (oneself) without restraint or moderation; give (oneself) over to natural impulses, usually without self-control: to abandon oneself to grief.
5. Law. to cast away, leave, or desert, as property or a child.
6. Insurance. to relinquish (insured property) to the underwriter in case of partial loss, thus enabling the insured to claim a total loss.
7. Obsolete. to banish.
Origin:
1325–75; ME abando(u)nen < MF abandoner for OF (mettre) a bandon (put) under (someone's) jurisdiction, equiv. to a at, to (< L ad; see ad- ) + bandon < Gmc *band; see bond 1

Related forms:
a⋅ban⋅don⋅a⋅ble, adjective
a⋅ban⋅don⋅er, noun
a⋅ban⋅don⋅ment, noun

Synonyms:
1. See desert 2 . 2. Abandon, relinquish, renounce mean to give up all concern in something. Abandon means to give up or discontinue any further interest in something because of discouragement, weariness, distaste, or the like: to abandon one's efforts. Relinquish implies being or feeling compelled to give up something one would prefer to keep: to relinquish a long-cherished desire. Renounce implies making (and perhaps formally stating) a voluntary decision to give something up: to renounce worldly pleasures. 3. yield, surrender, resign, waive, abdicate.

Antonyms:
1. keep. 2. continue; begin, start. 3. retain.
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a·ban·don   (ə-bān'dən)   
tr.v.   a·ban·doned, a·ban·don·ing, a·ban·dons
  1. To withdraw one's support or help from, especially in spite of duty, allegiance, or responsibility; desert: abandon a friend in trouble.
  2. To give up by leaving or ceasing to operate or inhabit, especially as a result of danger or other impending threat: abandoned the ship.
  3. To surrender one's claim to, right to, or interest in; give up entirely. See Synonyms at relinquish.
  4. To cease trying to continue; desist from: abandoned the search for the missing hiker.
  5. To yield (oneself) completely, as to emotion.
n.  
  1. Unbounded enthusiasm; exuberance.
  2. A complete surrender of inhibitions.

[Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, from a bandon : a, at (from Latin ad; see ad-) + bandon, control; see bhā-2 in Indo-European roots.]
a·ban'don·er n., a·ban'don·ment n.
a·ban·doned   (ə-bān'dənd)   
adj.  
  1. Deserted; forsaken.
  2. Exuberantly enthusiastic.
  3. Recklessly unrestrained.
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Abandoned

A*ban"doned\ ([.a]*b[a^]n"d[u^]nd), a. 1. Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." --Thomson.

2. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain.

Syn: Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious; depraved; reprobate; wicked; unprincipled; graceless; vile.

Usage: Abandoned, Profligate, Reprobate. These adjectives agree in expressing the idea of great personal depravity. Profligate has reference to open and shameless immoralities, either in private life or political conduct; as, a profligate court, a profligate ministry. Abandoned is stronger, and has reference to the searing of conscience and hardening of heart produced by a man's giving himself wholly up to iniquity; as, a man of abandoned character. Reprobate describes the condition of one who has become insensible to reproof, and who is morally abandoned and lost beyond hope of recovery.

God gave them over to a reprobate mind. --Rom. i. 28.
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Language Translation for : abandoned
Spanish: inmoral, desvergonzado,
German: hemmungslos,
Japanese: 恥知らずの
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