Results for abandon

Definitions of abandon:

part of speech: verb transitive

To give up: to desert: to yield ( one's self) without restraint.

part of speech: verb

To give up; to desert; to forsake entirely.

part of speech: verb transitive

To give up entirely; as, the sailors were forced to abandon the sinking ship; to desert or forsake; to give up all claim to.

Usage examples for abandon:

• His health failing him, he was compelled to abandon what might have become a really brilliant career as a journalist. "Anderson Crow, Detective", George Barr McCutcheon

• The edge seemed to be missing from his occasional moods of abandon sometimes he looked thoughtfully at a man without hearing what the man was saying to him. "Dan Merrithew", Lawrence Perry

• This was one of the things that provoked Mrs. Kenton with him; when he had once taken hope he would not abandon it without reason. "Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells", William Dean Howells

• The stock had recently been added to; it was very hard to have to abandon it. "By Veldt and Kopje", William Charles Scully