| Abandon |
v. t. |
To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. |
| Abandon |
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. |
| Abandon |
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. |
| Abandon |
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. |
| Abandon |
v. |
Abandonment; relinquishment. |
| Abandon |
n. |
A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease. |
| Abandoned |
imp. & p. p. |
of Abandon |
| Abandoned |
a. |
Forsaken, deserted. |
| Abandoned |
a. |
Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain. |
| Abandonedly |
adv. |
Unrestrainedly. |
| Abandonee |
n. |
One to whom anything is legally abandoned. |
| Abandoner |
n. |
One who abandons. |
| Abandoning |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Abandon |
| Abandonment |
n. |
The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. |
| Abandonment |
n. |
The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against. |
| Abandonment |
n. |
The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc. |
| Abandonment |
n. |
The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion. |
| Abandonment |
n. |
Careless freedom or ease; abandon. |
