Abandon vs Endanger - What's the difference?
abandon | endanger |
(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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To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
* 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
* Burke
* 1877, Louisa May Alcott, Under the Lilacs
(obsolete) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.
* Francis Bacon
In lang=en terms the difference between abandon and endanger
is that abandon is to surrender to the insurer the insured item, so as to claim a total loss while endanger is to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.As verbs the difference between abandon and endanger
is that abandon is (obsolete) to subdue; to take control of while endanger is to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.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
endanger
English
Alternative forms
* endaunger (obsolete) * indangerVerb
(en verb)- I hold him but a fool that will endanger / His body [in a duel] for a girl that loves him not
- All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.
- If you endanger other people's life and liberty in your pursuit of happiness, I shall have to confiscate your arms, boys.
- He that turneth the humours back endangereth malign ulcers.