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  2. If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so. 2. If you abandon an activity or piece of work, you stop doing it before it is finished.

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  3. ABANDON definition: 1. to leave a place, thing, or person, usually for ever: 2. to stop doing an activity before you…. Learn more.

  4. If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.

  5. Detailed meaning of abandon. It can be used to describe various situations, such as deserting a place or a person, withdrawing support or resources, or relinquishing a project or a plan. Abandonment typically implies a sense of finality and irreversibility, as well as a lack of concern or responsibility for the consequences of the action.

  6. To abandon something is to give it up completely. If you’re in a cabin and a forest fire approaches, you’d better get in your car and abandon your cabin, or else be prepared to abandon your life.

  7. The original sense was ‘bring under control’, later ‘give in to the control of, surrender to’ (sense (5)). Definition of abandon verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  8. abandon yourself to something (literary) to feel an emotion so strongly that you can feel nothing else He abandoned himself to despair. Definition of abandon verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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