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abandon

verb
/əˈbæn.dən/

Etymology

From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (“at, to”) + bandon (“jurisdiction, control”), from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus, bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command”) (whence English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”). See also ban, banal. Displaced Middle English forleten (“to abandon”), from Old English forlǣtan, anforlǣtan; see forlet; and Middle English forleven (“to leave behind, abandon”), from Old English forlǣfan; see forleave.

  1. derived from *bʰeh₂-✻
  2. derived from *bannaną✻ — “to proclaim, command”
  3. derived from *ban✻
  4. derived from bannum — “proclamation”
  5. derived from abandoner
  6. inherited from abandounen

Definitions

  1. To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to…

    To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.

    • […] he abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice.

  2. To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to

    To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.

  3. To leave behind

    To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.

    • Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
    • He was abandoned on the island with no one to help him.
    • She abandoned her husband for a new man.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. To subdue

      To subdue; to take control of.

    2. To cast out

      To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

      • Being all this time abandoned from your bed.

    3. To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of…

      To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.

      • I hereby abandon my position as manager.

    4. To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.

    5. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions

      A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)

      • with gay abandon, with wild abandon
      • I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'

    6. Abandonment

      Abandonment; relinquishment.

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Derived

aband, abandonability, abandonable, abandoned, abandonee, abandoner, abandon hope, all ye who enter here, abandonment, abandon ship, abandonware, all hope abandon ye who enter here, reabandon, unabandon, abandonly, abandonness

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at abandon. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at abandon. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at abandon

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA