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Abandoned vs Escaped - What's the difference?

abandoned | escaped |

As adjectives the difference between abandoned and escaped

is that abandoned is self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain while escaped is that or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.

As verbs the difference between abandoned and escaped

is that abandoned is past tense of abandon while escaped is past tense of escape.

abandoned

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain.
  • No longer maintained by its former owners, residents
  • * (rfdate), Thomson:
  • Free from constraint; uninhibited.
  • * 1919 , :
    • Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
  • (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

    • Derived terms

    * abandonedness

    Synonyms

    * deserted * forsaken * corrupt * depraved * dissolute * graceless * reprobate * unprincipled * vicious * vile * wicked

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abandon)

    • References

    escaped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (escape)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • That or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.
    • People are being warned not to approach the escaped prisoner.