Abandon

Definitions: Abandon

Abandon

Noun

1. The trait of lacking restraint or control; freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon".

2. A feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger".

Verb

1. Forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot".

2. 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 in these negociations".

3. 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".

4. Leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight".

5. Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "abandon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

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Literature

Shipping

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Synonyms: Abandon

Activity

Eagerness, zeal, ardor, perfervidum aingenium, empressement, earnestness, intentness; abandon; vigor; (physical energy); devotion; (resolution); exertion.

Artlessness

Noun: artlessness; adj; nature, simplicity; innocence; bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity; singleness of purpose, singleness of heart; honesty; plain speaking; epanchement.

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Departure

Leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye; Noun: disappear; abscond; (avoid); entrain; inspan.

Hopelessness

Verb: despair; lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of; give up, give over; yield to despair; falter; despond; (be dejected); jeter le manche apres la cognee.

Abandon; resign, surrender, submit.

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf; (disuse); set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.

Verb: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate; (resign).

Seclusion Exclusion

Verb: be secluded, live secluded; Adjective: keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux; retire, retire from the world; take the veil; abandon; sport one's oak.

Crosswords: Abandon

French (abandonment, abort, acquiescence, cession, dereliction, desertion, isolation, jilt, laying aside, leave, relinquishment, renunciation, resignation, retirement, rezignation, separation, surrender, waiver), German (abandonment), Romanian (abandon, desertion, dezmãþat), Turkish (abandon).

God will not abandon you. So don't you abandon us. (The Prince of Egypt; writing credit: Ken Harsha; Carole Holliday)

These days, ladies abandon their honor far more readily than their clothes. (Frenzy; writing credit: Arthur La Bern; Anthony Shaffer)

We can't abandon the base and since I turned this thing on I'm the one who's gotta turn it off. Oh man I'm starting to sound like Optimus Pinhead. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

He won't abandon you now. I know He won't. (Promised Land; writing credit: Frédéric D'Onfs; Olivier Langlois)

The Virgin will never abandon us (American Family; writing credit: Fri�rik ��r Fri�riksson; Einar Kárason)

Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here. (references; author: unknown)

Abandon (2002)

Red Shoe Diaries 8: Night of Abandon (1997)

L' Abandon (1996)

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Books

• Abandon (reference)

• Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster (reference)

• Amazing Conversions: Why Some Turn to Faith & Others Abandon Religion (reference)

• Bravehearts: Unlocking the Courage to Love with Abandon (reference)

• Seaswept Abandon (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Abandon (reference)

• Deep Purple Live in Australia 1999 - Total Abandon (reference)

• Deep Purple: Total Abandon Live - Australia '99 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Abandon (Music from the Motion Picture) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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"Abandon hope, all Ye who enter here." / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr..

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To turn him loose to an unrestrained liberty, before he has reason to guide him, is not the allowing him the privilege of his nature to be free; but to thrust him out amongst brutes, and abandon him to a state as wretched, and as much beneath that of a man, as their's. (Second Treatise of Government)

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However, the innkeeper did not abandon the pursuit.

The priests were right to abandon him.

If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.

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Business

Although China has operated under an economic reform policy for 18 years, it still has not been able to completely abandon the planned economy in many sectors. (references)

Furthermore, Phoenix plans to abandon BMW's premium pricing strategy for Rover cars, and hopes to continue output at the plant at around 200,000 cars a year. But just how Phoenix plans to continue large-scale production at the Longbridge plant as well as manage to turn in a profit so soon remains to be seen. Longbridge is well-aged, and productivity is low compared to other plants, and the Rover 25 and 45 will need to be replaced in a few years, which will require investments of up to $1.5 billion per model. (references)

Civil Liberties

East Timor

The fear of such violence until June at times led East Timorese residents to abandon their villages temporarily. (references)

Colombia

On November 9, the AUC threatened three journalists and a cameraman and advised them to abandon their profession in less than 48 hours or face execution. (references)

Turkey

In August the governor of the state of emergency region estimated that since 1999, 18,600 persons had returned to their villages in that region with government assistance, with a total of 5,853 houses constructed for the "citizens who were forced to abandon their villages due to terrorism." In August the Tunceli provincial governor announced that he had given permanent settlement permission to 30 villages during the year and temporary settlement permission to 50 others. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

Opponents of privatization forced the government to abandon these efforts. (references)

Bangladesh

The opposition's refusal to participate, however, forced Ershad to abandon these plans. (references)

Norway

There are rumors that they may wish to abandon their own network development and piggyback onto the efforts of the incumbent operators. (references)

Human Rights

Tunisia

Mansouri alleged he was severely beaten and chained in his prison cell by guards in order to force him to abandon a hunger strike. (references)

Congo

The climate of insecurity in rebel-held territories and particularly in the Kivu Provinces forced many local residents to abandon their homes and created food shortages because armed bands kept farmers from working in their fields. (references)

Indigenous People

Philippines

The 1995 Mining Act promoted mining operations, hydroelectric dams, and other large-scale projects that forced indigenous people to relocate and abandon farming and hunting land that they have used for generations. (references)

Political Economy

ECUADOR

At that time, continued pressure on the currency led the Central Bank to abandon its crawling peg and float the sucre. (references)

Ecuador

Suffering from capital flight, steep devaluation, soaring interest rates, and the highest inflation in the hemisphere, the Government decided in January 2000 to abandon Ecuador's currency in favor of the dollar. (references)

Zimbabwe

The Government expanded its far-reaching "fast-track" resettlement program, begun in 2000, whereby nearly all large-scale commercial farms, which are mostly white-owned, were designated for seizure without fair compensation; many farmers and their families were forced to abandon their homes and property due to direct threats from members of the Government and ruling party, and their supporters. (references)

Political Rights

Zambia

Citizens, mobilized by civil society organizations, also mounted sufficient political pressure to compel the Government to abandon its efforts. (references)

Nigeria

Early in the year, members of the executive branch allegedly attempted to remove Speaker Ghali Na'abba; however, evidence of widespread fraud and corruption in the attempt to buy votes for the removal of Na'abba forced the executive branch to abandon the effort. (references)

Trade

Peru

In 1992 Peru suspended its participation in the Andean Community's integration process because it was reluctant to abandon its two level tariff structure for the four-tiered common external tariff (CET) favored by the other members. (references)

Worker Rights

Venezuela

The ILO urged the Government to refrain from displaying favoritism with regard to the FBT and to abandon the idea of imposing trade union unity. (references)

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Expressions using "abandon": abandon all hope ♦ abandon hope of ♦ abandon one's brief ♦ abandon oneself ♦ abandon oneself to ♦ abandon oneself to despair ♦ abandon play ♦ abandon smb. ♦ with abandon. Additional references.

Afrikaan

verlaat (desert, forsake, leave, quit). (various references)

Albanian

bie në dëshpërim (abandon oneself to despair). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تنازل عن يهجر يترك, ‏تخلى (assign, cast aside, cede, desist, disgorge, expose, forsake, give up, go back on, hand over, leave, let down, part, quit, release, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retreat, shake, shrift, sign away, slough, swear off, throw over, turn one's back on, vacate, waive, walk out on, yield), ‏أقلع عن (desist, get off, leave off), ‏رحل يهجر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

страст (addiction, ardour, desire, feeling, fervency, fervor, fervour, infatuation, lust, passion, rage, vehemence), увлечение (abandonment, fire, flame, gusto, mustard, penchant, relish, transport, vehemence, zeal, zest), оставям (confide, desert, drop off, leave, leave behind, let, put, put down, quit, repudiate, resign, vacate), отказвам се от (abnegate, call off, decline, deny oneself, disavow, discard, disclaim, forwent, give away, give oneself up, give up, jettison, part with, pass up, put away, remise, renounce, repudiate, retract, surrender, toss over, turn from, turn in, yield), отдавам се изцяло, невъздържаност (abandonment, debauchery, excess, incontinence, licentiousness, temper, unreserve, unrestraint), напускам (desert, fall away, lay down, leave, leave off, part from, quit, relinquish, vacate, void), зарязвам (cut out, drop off, overboard, pack in, put away, put on the shelf, quit, run out, stand up, throw over, throw up, walk out on), занемарявам (evade, neglect), предавам се изцяло, подхвърлям (expose, fling, hint, insinuate, interject, interpose, leave, throw up, toss, toss about), изоставям (discard, drop, drop behind, dump, forsake, forsook, hang behind, lay aside, lay by, leave, neglect, overboard, pass up, put away, relinquish, renege, renounce, shelve, turn from, turn in, walk out on). (various references)

Chinese 

背棄 (desert, renounce), 遐 (distant), 罷休 (forget it, give up, let it go, let matter drop), 朅 (to leave), 棄 (relinquish, to discard, to throw away), �"�棄 (cast away, discard), �'弃 (Abandoned, Abandoning, spurn, spurned, Spurning), 丟棄 (discard). (various references)

Czech

vzdát se èeho (come off, throw over), opustit (desert, drop, forsake, leave, plant, quit, relinquish, throw up, to leave), bezstarostnost (light mood, recklessness, security). (various references)

Danish

opgive (to surrender), lukke (close, closure, fastening device, shut), frasigelse af optionsret, forlade (desert, forsake, leave, quit). (various references)

Dutch

verlaten (abandoned, alone, desert, dreary, forsake, gaunt, leave, only, quit, sole, solitary, uninhabited), opgeven (give up, lose, renounce, resign, say, tell), afleggen (cover, cuttle, go through, layer, pass through, put off, take off). (various references)

Esperanto

rezigni (give up, renounce, resign), malinhibicio, forlasi (desert, forsake, leave, quit), delasi. (various references)

Faeroese

lata sær lynda (cede, give in, give up, give way, relinquish, renounce, resign, yield), fara frá (abdicate, desert, forsake, leave, quit, resign). (various references)

Farsi 

واگذاری (Abandonment, Assignment, Bail, Cession, Conveyance, Demission, Resignation, Submission, Surrender), واگذارکردن (Abdicate, Admit, Assign, Cede, Concede, Entrust, Give, Relegate, Remise, Surrender, Title, Transfer, Vest, Yield), تسلیم شدن (Acquiesce, Capitulate, Defer, Givein, Knuckle, Obey, Quit, Submit, Succumb, Surrender, Vouchsafe), ترک گقتن , تبعیدکردن (Deport, Displace, Exile, Proscribe), رهاکردن (Bolt, Disentangle, Dispossess, Drop, Extricate, Lax, Leave, Let, Liberate, Loose, Release, Surrender, Unbend, Uncork, Uncouple, Unfasten, Unfix, Unfold, Unhand, Unhook, Unleash, Unloose, Unsling), رهاسازی (Abandonment, Quit), بی خیالی . (various references)

Finnish

alistua (give up, reconcile oneself, renounce, resign, resign oneself, submit, yield), luovuttaminen (alienation, conveyance, transfer of right, transfer of title). (various references)

French

abandonner (abort), renoncer, délaisser. (various references)

Frisian

ferlitte (desert, forsake, leave, quit). (various references)

German

verlassen (abandoned, abandonment, derelict, derelicted, desert, deserted, desertion, desolate, evacuate, exit, forlorn, forsake, leave, lonely, loose, move away, quit, quitted, quitting, solitary, to derelict, to desert, to evacuate, to forlorn, to leave, to rely, untrodden), preisgeben (betray, divulge, drop, expose, leave to the mercy of, relinquish, surrender, to give away, withdraw), aussetzen (adjourn, bequeath, break off, cut out, defer, expose, fail, find fault, give out, interrupt, launch, lower, make a halt, maroon, Miss, occur intermittently, offer, plant out, put up, release, set out, shoot, sit out, stay, suspend, to suspend), aufgeben (check in, cry uncle, discontinue, dispatch, drop, forsake, give in, give up, jack in, jettison, lay aside, lay away, mail, part with, place, post, quit, register, relinquish, renounce, resign, say uncle, serve, set, submit, surrender, to abdicate, to capitulate, to dismiss, to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, vacate, withdraw, yield), ablassen (blow off, desist, discard, discount, drain, drain off, draining, empty, exhale, knock off, leave off, let off, rebate, surcease, to desist, to drain, to surcease). (various references)

Greek 

εγκαταλείπω (abdicate, abnegate, desert, drop out, forsake, give up, jettison, maroon, quit, relinquish, renounce). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפרוע (cause disturbance, reject, riot), לעזוב (desert, forsake, leave, let go, loosen, release, set free), לז� וח (desert, forsake, lay aside, reject), ל�"פקיר (forfeit, forsake, give up), ל�"ז� יח (neglect, omit), ל� טוש (brandish, cast aside, desert, forsake, lay aside, leave, let, quit, relinquish, renounce). (various references)

Hungarian

elhagy (desert, forsake, forsaken, forsook, jilt, leave, leave behind, let down, omit, quit, sank, sunk, throw over, to abandon, to desert, to drop out, to fall off, to forsake, to jilt, to leave behind, to mislay, to sink, to throw over). (various references)

Icelandic

yfirgefa (desert, forsake, leave, quit), hætta við. (various references)

Indonesian

menterlantarkan (neglect), meninggalkan (absent, forsake, leave), menelantarkan. (various references)

Italian

abbandonare (abdicate, bolt, desert, discard, dismiss, dump, fail, forsake, give up, leave, leave behind, let oneself go, quit, register, relinquish, renounce, resign, Slough, surrender), lasciare (allow, desertion, evacuate, forsake, keep, leave, leave behind, leaving, let, lets, loose, quit, release, relinquish, resign, slack, to assume), abbandono (abandonment, abbandonato, bolt, default, dereliction, desertion, disused industrial premises, loneliness, moving out of tenant to elude payment of ground rent, neglect). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

廃棄 (annullment, discarding, disposal, repeal, scrap). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

みきり (forsake), はいき (annullment, discarding, disposal, exhaust, repeal, scrap, ventilation). (various references)

Manx

treigeil (betray, defect, departure, desert, deviation, evacuate, evacuation, fall away, forsake; repudiation, jilt, lay aside, maroon, rat on, repudiate, strand, throw over), lhiggey lesh (abandonment, comply, concede, concession, connivance, connive, forbear, humour, indulge, indulgence, loosen, loosening, part with, remission, spare, yield), gyn lhiettrimys (freely, stintless, unconstrained, unconstrainedly, unhampered, unhindered, unimpeded, without reserve), gyn boirey (happy-go-lucky, imperturbed), faagail (bequeath, depart, descend, disembark, ditch, flitting, forsake, give up, hand down, keep on, leave, leaving, maroon, outgoing, quit, quitting, relinquish, retire, season; vacating, seasoning, strand, throw over), cur ergooyl (repulse, stand over). (various references)

Maya

pat (to abandon). (various references)

Norwegian

forlate (allow, desert, forgive, forsake, leave, let, quit, release). (various references)

Papiamen

abandoná (desert, forsake, leave, neglect, quit, slighting). (various references)

Pig Latin

abandonay.(various references)

Polish

opuścić. (various references)

Portuguese

abandono (abandonment, dereliction, desertion, disposal, forgoing, helplessness, lurch, moving out of tenant to elude payment of ground rent, neglect, quitclaim, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, waiver), abandonar (back down, cast off, cede, desert, doff, flee, forsake, forwent, give up, jettison, lay aside, lay down a rule, leave, neglect, off, quit, reject, relinquish, renounce, secede, set aside, throw over, to abandon, vacant, vacate, waive). (various references)

Romanian

abandona (break off an engagement, deliver up, desert, desolate, drop, expose, forsake, leave, part with, quit, relent, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, shelve, spare, throw). (various references)

Russian 

непринужденность (ease). (various references)

Scottish

tréig (desert), f� g (absent onself, depart, forsake, go away, leave, quit), dìobair (forsake). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaboraviti (forget), razuzdanost (licentiousness, looseness), raskalašnost (licentiousness, profligacy), ostaviti (cast off, leave, let, relinquish, walk out), odbaciti (cast aside, cast away, disallow, discard, dismiss, leave, off it, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, set apart, throw away, toss off), napustiti (cast off, desert, desolate, drop, drop out, fall away, forsake, give away, jilt, leave, quit, run out, take leave of, throw over, vacate, walk out), bataliti (quit). (various references)

Spanish

abandonar (bolt, break, call off, cast away, cede, chuck, clear away, come off, come up, desert, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give in, give up, give way, iron out, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield), abandono (abandoning, abandonment, dereliction, desertion, indulgence, neglect, relinquishment, renunciation, surrender), renunciar a (abnegate, discard, give up, leave off, pass up, put aside, recant, relinquish, renounce, resign, vacate, waive), dejar (allow, bring in, drop, exit, finish, forget, forsake, give up, leave, leave alone, leave behind, leave off, leave out, lend, let, lets, make, outdistance, outstrip, produce, put, put down, quit, release, slip, stop, to assume, wait, yield). (various references)

Swedish

lämna (desert, drop, forsake, furnish, give, give up, hand, hand down, jack in, leave, leaving, offer, quit, render, vacate, yield), överge (desert, discard, drop, forsake, jack in, jettison, jilt, leave, plant, slough off, throw over, throw overboard, yield). (various references)

Tahitian

fa'aru'e. (various references)

Turkish

abandon, yüzüstü bırakmak (desert, fail, leave in the lurch, leave smb. in the lurch, let down, turn smb. adrift, walk on, walk out on), vazgeçmek (back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), terk etmek (desert, leave, vacate, walk out on), kesmek (amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), kendinden geçme (blackout, ecstasy, frenzy, rapture, stupor, transport), bırakmak (allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out), çökmek (bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat, subside). (various references)

Ukranian 

кидати (aim, buzz, cast, chop, chuck, dart, dash, depart, desert, desolate, elance, fall away, fling, pack in, pelt, pitch, plonk, project, sling, throw, throw down, throw up, toss), відмовлятися від (chuck, cry off, swear off), віддаватися (addict, sell oneself), нестриманість (breadth, expansiveness, expansivity, extravagance, impotence, incontinence, intemperance, unreserve), невимушеність (abandonment, ease, informality, negligence, repose), залишати (chuck, depart, desert, desolate, forsake, give over, leave, quit, relinquish, throw over, void). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự tự do (abandonment, freedom, hesitance, hesitancy), sự phóng túng (licentiousness), sự buông thả (abandonment). (various references)

Welsh

rhoi'r gorau i, gadael (absent onself, accord, admit, afford, allow, depart, go away, leave, let, permit). (various references)

abicere, abiciam, abiciamus, abicias, abiciat, abicient, abicientes, abiciet, abicietur, abicio, abicis, abicit, abicite, abicitis, abicitur, abiecerat, abiecerint, abiecerunt, abieci, abiecisset, abiecisti, abiecit, abiecta, abiectae, abiectam, abiecti, abiectum, abiectus, bacchides, darium, decessit, dedere, dederis, dederisque, dedi, dedimus, dedique, dedis, dedit, deditam, deditos, deditque, deerat, deerit, deerunt, deesset, deest, defuerit, defuerunt, defuit, dens, dente, dentem, dentes, dentibus, dentium, derelinquo, des, deseram, deserant, deserat, desere, deserebat, deserentes, deserenti, deserere, deseretur, deserit, desero, deserta, desertae, desertam, desertarum, desertas, deserti, desertis, deserto, desertos, desertum, desertus, deseruerunt, deseruisse, desieris, desierunt, desiit, desinam, desinant, desinas, desinat, desine, desines, desinet, desinis, desinite, desis, desisset, desit, desiveris, desivimus, desivit, desolabit, desolabitur, desolabuntur, desolare, desolastis, desolata, desolatae, desolatam, desolatarum, desolati, desolatis, desolatum, desolatur, desolaverunt, desolentur, desoletur, destituant, destituens, destituerunt, destituo, destituta, destitutae, destitutam, desunt, dimiserant, dimiserat, dimiseratis, dimiseris, dimiserit, dimiseritis, dimisero, dimiserunt, dimiseruntque, dimisi, dimisimus, dimisissem, dimisisses, dimisisset, dimisisti, dimisistis, dimisit, dimisitque, dimissa, dimissam, dimissi, dimissis, dimisso, dimissum, dimissus, dimittam, dimittamini, dimittantur, dimittas, dimittat, dimittatis, dimittatur, dimitte, dimittebantur, dimittemus, dimittendi, dimittens, dimittent, dimittentes, dimittentur, dimittere, dimitteremus, dimitterentur, dimitteres, dimitteret, dimittes, dimittesque, dimittet, dimittetis, dimittetur, dimitteturque, dimitti, dimittimus, dimittis, dimittit, dimittite, dimittitis, dimittitur, dimitto, dimittunt, dimittuntur, discedant, discedas, discedat, discede, discedebant, discedebat, discedendi, discedens, discedensque, discedent, discedentes, discedere, discederent, discederet, discedet, discedimus, discedit, discedite, discessere, discesseris, discesserit, discesserunt, discessissent, discessisset, discessit, exponat, exponebat, exponere, exponerent, exposita, exposito, expositura, expositurus, exposuerunt, exposui, exposuisset, exposuisti, exposuit, prodere, proderet, proderis, prodiderat, prodideris, prodit, proditi, proditor, proice, proicere, proicerent, proiceret, proici, proiciam, proiciamus, proicias, proiciatur, proiciemini, proiciens, proicient, proiciente, proicientes, proicientibus, proicientur, proicies, proiciet, proicietis, proicietur, proicio, proicis, proicit, proicite, proieceram, proiecerant, proieceras, proiecerat, proiecerim, proiecerit, proiecerunt, proieceruntque, proieci, proiecisset, proiecisti, proiecistis, proiecit, proiecitque, proiecta, proiecti, proiectis, proiecto, proiectum, proiectus, relicta, relictae, relicti, relictis, relictisque, relicto, relictos, relictum, relictus, relinquam, relinquamini, relinquamus, relinquant, relinquas, relinquat, relinquatis, relinquatur, relinque, relinquebant, relinquebat, relinquemus, relinquens, relinquent, relinquentes, relinquentur, relinquere, relinquere, derelinquere, relinquerentur, relinqueretur, relinqueris, relinques, relinquet, relinquetur, relinquimur, relinquit, relinquite, relinquitur, relinquo, relinquunt, relinquuntur, reliquerant, reliquerat, reliquerint, reliqueris, reliquerit, reliqueritis, reliquerunt, reliqui, reliquimus, reliquisse, reliquissent, reliquisset, reliquisti, reliquistis, reliquit. (various references)

ofgiefan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "abandon": abandoned, abandoner, abandoners, abandoning, abandonment, abandonments, abandons. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Abandon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aandoo, Abaddon, Abado, Abanda, abandond, abandone, Abano, Abbondio, Abiodun, abnon, Abondano, Abondio, abondon, adandon, Albadou, amando, Anandan, Asangono, avanzo, Cabindan, Evandron, natanson. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: donna.

-3 letters: anna, anoa, anon, band, bond, dona, naan, nada, nana, nona.

-4 letters: aba, abo, ado, ana, and, baa, bad, ban, boa, bod, dab, don, nab, nan, nob, nod.

-5 letters: aa, ab, ad, an, ba, bo, do, na, no, od, on.

+1 letter: abandons.

+2 letters: abandoned, abandoner, bandwagon.

+3 letters: abandoners, abandoning, bandwagons, belladonna, carbonnade, contraband, narrowband.

+4 letters: abandonment, belladonnas, cannabinoid, carbonnades, contrabands, vagabonding.

+5 letters: abandonments, bastinadoing, cannabinoids, cannonballed, carbonadoing, nonadiabatic, nonbroadcast, overabundant, unpardonable.

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