Abandon vs Deserve - What's the difference?
abandon | deserve |
(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 :
To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.
:After playing so well, the team really deserved their win .
:After what he did, he deserved to go to prison .
:This argument deserves a closer examination.
*Bible, Job xi. 6
*:God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth .
*Thackeray
*:John Gay deserved to be a favourite.
(obsolete) To earn, win.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
*:That gentle Lady, whom I loue and serue, / After long suit and weary seruicis, / Did aske me, how I could her loue deserue , / And how she might be sure, that I would neuer swerue.
(obsolete) To reward, to give in return for service.
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*:Gramercy saide the kynge / & I lyue sir Lambegus I shal deserue hit / And thenne sir Lambegus armed hym / and rode after as fast as he myghte
(obsolete) To serve; to treat; to benefit.
*Massinger
*:A man that hath / So well deserved me.
In obsolete terms the difference between abandon and deserve
is that abandon is abandonment; relinquishment while deserve is to serve; to treat; to benefit.As verbs the difference between abandon and deserve
is that abandon is to subdue; to take control of while deserve is to be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.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 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 .