| 单词 | abandon |
| 释义 | abandon (once / 104 pages) 1v 2n To abandon something is to give it up completely. If you’re in a cabin and a forest fire approaches, you’d better get in your car and abandon your cabin, or else be prepared to abandon your life. If you abandon something, you let it go, so when you describe someone as "acting with abandon," it means they have let go of restrictions or inhibitions. Maybe you like to dance with abandon in the privacy of your own room. But abandon could also mean people have abandoned their senses. To "drive with abandon," for example, means to drive recklessly. WORD FAMILYabandon: abandoned, abandoning, abandonment, abandons+/abandoned: abandonedly/abandonment: abandonments USAGE EXAMPLESThe driver abandoned the car and fled on foot; his female passenger was detained and questioned by authorities, and later released, Nicholson said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) The idea was ultimately abandoned in the 1980s. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Obama, as I wrote earlier this week, abandoned this promise in his first year in office. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v forsake; leave behind We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot Hypo|Hyper chuck, ditch throw away dispense withforgo or do or go without forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waivelose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime consigncommit forever; commit irrevocably lapselet slip cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out throw or cast away 2v give up with the intent of never claiming again Abandon your life to God Syn|Hypo give up foreswear, quit, relinquish, renounce turn away from; give up disclaimrenounce a legal claim or title to 3v leave behind empty; move out of Syn|Hyper empty, vacate go away, go forth, leave go away from a place 4v leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch Syn|Hypo|Hyper desert, desolate, forsake expose abandon by leaving out in the open air walk outleave suddenly, often as an expression of disapproval ditchforsake maroon, strandleave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue leave go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness 5v stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims 2He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage Syn give up ease up, give, give way, move over, yield move in order to make room for someone for something break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give waybreak down, literally or metaphorically 1n the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry she danced with abandon Syn|Hyper unconstraint, wantonness unrestraint the quality of lacking restraint 2n a feeling of extreme emotional intensity Syn|Hyper wildness passion, passionateness a strong feeling or emotion |
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