Abandon Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0

abandon n
1. the trait of lacking restraint or control; freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon" [syn: wantonness, unconstraint]
2. a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger" [syn: wildness] v
3. forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot"
4. 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" [syn: give up]
5. 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" [syn: give up]
6. leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight" [syn: vacate, empty]
7. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children" [syn: forsake, desolate, desert]

Abandon Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Abandon \A*ban"don\ ([.a]*b[a^]n"d[u^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abandoned (-d[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Abandoning.] [OF. abandoner, F. abandonner; a (L. ad) + bandon permission, authority, LL. bandum, bannum, public proclamation, interdiction, bannire to proclaim, summon: of Germanic origin; cf. Goth. bandwjan to show by signs, to designate OHG. ban proclamation. The word meant to proclaim, put under a ban, put under control; hence, as in OE., to compel, subject, or to leave in the control of another, and hence, to give up. See Ban.]
1. To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. --Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. --Shak.
2. 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. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. --I. Taylor.
3. Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at

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* When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. - Confucius

* Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. - Robert Frost

* 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 Alva Edison


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