abandon

abandon is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
4. transitive verb. To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.
5. verb. Abandonment; relinquishment.
6. noun. A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
7. noun. the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry

   "she danced with abandon"

   Synonyms: unconstraint, wantonness

8. noun. a feeling of extreme emotional intensity

   "the wildness of his anger"

   Synonyms: wildness

9. verb. stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims

   "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"

   "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations"

10. verb. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

    "The mother deserted her children"

    Synonyms: desert, desolate, forsake

11. verb. leave behind empty; move out of

    "You must vacate your office by tonight"

    Synonyms: empty, vacate

12. verb. 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"

13. verb. forsake, leave behind

    "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot"

Synonyms

unconstraint, wantonness, wildness, desert, desolate, forsake, empty, vacate

Common word forms

abandons, abandoned, abandoner, abandoning, abandonable, abandonment

Words from these letters

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