Abandon vs Arrive - What's the difference?
abandon | arrive |
(obsolete) To subdue; to take control of.
To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
* Macaulay
To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
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To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.
* (rfdate) I. Taylor:
(obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
* 1594 , , The Taming of the Shrew , act I, scene ii:
* Udall
To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
To surrender to the insurer the insured item, so as to claim a total loss.
A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. .
* 1954 , , Messiah :
* 2007 , Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich, :
(obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
(obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.
* 1330 , Arthour and Merlin :
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(copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
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To obtain a level of success or fame.
* 2002 , Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (page 58)
To come; said of time.
To happen or occur.
* Waller
(archaic) To reach; to come to.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To bring to shore.
* Chapman
As verbs the difference between abandon and arrive
is that abandon is (obsolete) to subdue; to take control of while arrive is .As a noun abandon
is a yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences .As an adverb abandon
is (obsolete|not comparable) freely; entirely.abandon
English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) abandounen, from (etyl) abandoner, formed from . See also (l), (l). * Displaced (etyl) forleten .Verb
(en verb)- He abandoned himself to his favourite vice.
- Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned .
- Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
- Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
- that he might abandon them from him
Synonyms
(synonyms of "abandon") * abdicate * blin * cede * desert * forego * forlet * forsake * give up * leave * quit * relinquish * renounce * resign * retire * surrender * withdraw from * withsake * yieldDerived terms
(terms derived from "abandon") * aband * abandoned * abandonee * abandoner * abandonwareEtymology 2
* From (etyl), from (etyl) abandon, from abondonner.Noun
(en noun)- I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon : 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'
- They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.
Synonyms
* (giving up to impulses) wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraintAdverb
(en adverb)- His ribbes and scholder fel adoun,/Men might se the liver abandoun .
References
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Verb
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- Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
- The time has arrived for us to depart.
- Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives .
- Ere he arrive the happy isle.
- Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
- Arrive at last the blessed goal.
- and made the sea-trod ship arrive them