abandon
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /əˈbæn.dən/|/əˈban.dən/
美 /əˈbæn.dən/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)
— with gay abandon, with wild abandon, with reckless abandon
- Abandonment; relinquishment.
动词 v.
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To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
— […] he abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice.
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To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
— 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.
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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.
— Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
- To subdue; to take control of.
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To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
— Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
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To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
— I hereby abandon my position as manager.
- To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
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近义词
abdicate
abjure
blin
cast aside
cease
cede
deliver up
depart from
desert
desist from
discontinue
dispense with
drop
forgo
forlet
forsake
forswear
give up
jilt
leave behind
part with
quit
recant
relinquish
renounce
repudiate
resign
retire
retract
run out on
surrender
vacate
waive
withdraw from
withsake
yield
abandon
beleave
bug out
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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.
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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