To abandon, leave entirely, withdraw from; esp. to withdraw one's presence and help or companionship from; to desert. †to forsake patch: ? to…

transitive. To renounce or forsake (a person, god, etc.); spec. to repudiate or divorce (a spouse). Obsolete.

transitive. To deny (a statement, fact, etc.).

Const. from.

transitive. To withdraw from, abandon, give up (a person or occasionally an animal).

transitive. To relinquish, abandon.

transitive. To decline further association or acquaintance with (a person); to disown, cut off. Formerly also with from. Also in extended use.

Used in many phrases and idiomatic expressions merely as a variant (more emphatic or expressive of greater violence) of throw or cast (see esp. cast…

transitive. To abandon, forsake. Obsolete.

intransitive. With from. To cease to associate with a person. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To abandon (a person); to terminate a relationship. Now rare.

transitive. To break (a commitment); to break off relations with (a romantic partner, a friend, etc.); to abandon, give up.

In colloquial use with adverbs away, down, over, up, etc. chuck up (the sponge), said of a second in a prize-fight; hence, to give in, give up…

transferred and figurative. To defeat, frustrate; to abandon, discard; to jilt. (See also quot. 1899.) slang (originally U.S.).

intransitive. Chiefly English regional (London). With on. To abandon or disown a person; to turn one's back on.

intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). to run out on: to abandon or desert (a person, esp. one's spouse or partner in a relationship).

intransitive. To desert a partner, esp. a spouse. Chiefly with on.

With on: to betray or let down (someone). Also without const., to funk, to behave in a cowardly manner; to wriggle or squirm. Australian slang.