abandon

abandon has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• v. t.. To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
• v. t.. 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.
• v.. Abandonment; relinquishment.
• n.. A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
• n.. the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon"
• n.. a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger"
• v.. 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"
• v.. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
• v.. leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight"
• v.. 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"