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Abdicated vs Abandoned - What's the difference?

abdicated | abandoned |

As verbs the difference between abdicated and abandoned

is that abdicated is (abdicate) while abandoned is (abandon).

As an adjective abandoned is

self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain .

abdicated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (abdicate)

    • abdicate

    English

    Verb

    (abdicat)
  • (obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
  • (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
  • (obsolete) To depose.
  • (obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.
    • (Bishop Hall)
  • To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
    • Note:'' The word ''abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • The cross-bearers abdicated their service.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • He abdicates all right to be his own governor.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • The understanding abdicates its functions.
  • To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • Though a king may abdicate' for his own person, he cannot ' abdicate for the monarchy.

    Synonyms

    * give up, relinquish, renounce, quit, vacate, surrender, relent * forsake, abandon, desert, renounce, relent * forsake, give up * (relinquish or renounce a high office or sovereignty) relinquish, renounce, resign, quit, give up, vacate, relent

    Derived terms

    * abdicable * abdicant * abdicator

    Related terms

    * abdication

    References

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    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  • No longer maintained by its former owners, residents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