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abandoning

verb
/əˈbændənɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of abandon

    • Many have been abandoning their homes due to the violence. (progressive)
    • Their abandoning their homes means no tax revenues for the county. (gerund)
    • An abandoning husband can be a precursor to bankruptcy. (participial adjective)

  2. An act in which something or someone is abandoned

    An act in which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment, neglect

    • Their sensuality—[…] —their universal and insatiable lustings, and disgraceful abandonings of their unhappy victims— […] may not be credited by those who have not proof of such crimes.
    • I […] owe the one who depends upon me the gentlest of abandonings, if I leave him.
    • We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins and we cannot afford all these abandonings.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at abandoning. 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.

01abandoning02neglect03forbear04refuse05request06ask07require08need09indigence10destitution

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

10 hops · closes at abandoning

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