abandon

名词 n. 动词 v.
/əˈbæn.dən/|/əˈban.dən/    /əˈbæn.dən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.) countable,uncountable
    — with gay abandon, with wild abandon, with reckless abandon
  2. Abandonment; relinquishment. countable,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. transitive
    — […] he abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice.
  2. To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. transitive
    — In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
  3. To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. transitive
    — Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
  4. To subdue; to take control of. obsolete,transitive
  5. To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. obsolete,transitive
    — Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
  6. To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. transitive
    — I hereby abandon my position as manager.
  7. To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss. transitive

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (“at, to”) + bandon (“jurisdiction, control”), from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus, bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command”) (whence English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”). See also ban, banal.
Displaced Middle English forleten (“to abandon”), from Old English forlǣtan, anforlǣtan; see forlet; and Middle English forleven (“to leave behind, abandon”), from Old English forlǣfan; see forleave.
词源 2
From Middle English abandoun, from Old French abandon, from Old French abondonner.
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