Verb

(en verb)

(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

He abandoned himself to his favourite vice.

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:

Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned .

Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.

(obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

* 1594 , , The Taming of the Shrew , act I, scene ii:

Being all this time abandoned from your bed.

* Udall

that he might abandon them from him

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.