Abandon

Definition of abandon:

part of speech: verb

To forsake; to renounce.

part of speech: verb

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

part of speech: verb

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:

• Frank, I am so far selfish that I cannot bear to abandon the idea of your love. "Ayala's Angel", Anthony Trollope.

• I had determined some years previously, after due consideration with my wife, to abandon the Post Office when I had put by an income equal to the pension to which I should be entitled if I remained in the department till I was sixty. "Autobiography of Anthony Trollope", Anthony Trollope.

• Macgillivray, reluctant at first to abandon the cover of the trench, was driven at last to doing so by a fact forced upon him at every step that the place was a regular shell- trap. "Between the Lines", Boyd Cable.

• If we are seen together I shall be lost; but I will not abandon you. "Abbé Aubain and Mosaics", Prosper Mérimée.