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| Synonym Collection v1.1 | ||
| Main Entry: | abandon | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective | |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, alone, apostate, bereft, comfortless, derelict, renunciative, renunciatory | |
| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | ||
| Main Entry: | abandon | |
| Part of Speech: | noun | |
| Definition: | A complete surrender of inhibitions. | |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, incontinence, unrestraint, wantonness, wildness | |
| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | ||
| Main Entry: | abandon | |
| Part of Speech: | noun | |
| Definition: | A careless, often reckless disregard for consequences. | |
| Synonyms: | carelessness, heedlessness, thoughtlessness | |
| Synonym Collection v1.1 | ||
| Main Entry: | abandon | |
| Part of Speech: | noun | |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, abdication, abjuration, apostasy, defection, recantation, relinquishment, renunciation, unrestraint, waiver, wantonness | |
| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | ||
| Main Entry: | abandon | |
| Part of Speech: | verb | |
| Definition: | To give up or leave without intending to return or claim again. | |
| Synonyms: | desert, forsake, leave, quit, throw over | |
| Idioms: | run out on, walk out on | |
| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | ||
| Main Entry: | abandon | |
| Part of Speech: | verb | |
| Definition: | To cease trying to accomplish or continue. | |
| Synonyms: | break off, desist, discontinue, give up, leave off, quit, relinquish, remit, stop | |
| Idioms: | call it a day, call it quits, hang up one's fiddle, have done with, throw in the towel | |
| Synonym Collection v1.1 | ||
| Main Entry: | abandon | |
| Part of Speech: | verb | |
| Synonyms: | abdicate, abjure, abscond, apostatize, chuck, defect, depart, desert, discard, ditch, drop, flee, forgo, forsake, forswear, freedom, give-up, jettison, junk, leave, leave in the lurch, liberty, license, maroon, neglect, quit, rashness, recant, reject, relinquish, remit, renounce, repudiate, resign, scrap, scuttle, stop, surcease, surrender, turpitude, vacate, waive, yield | |
| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | ||
| Main Entry: | abdicate | |
| Part of Speech: | verb | |
| Definition: | To give up a possession, claim, or right. | |
| Synonyms: | cede, demit, forswear, hand over, quitclaim, relinquish, render, renounce, resign, surrender, waive, yield | |
| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | ||
| Main Entry: | give | |
| Part of Speech: | verb | |
| Definition: | To yield (oneself) unrestrainedly, as to a particular impulse. | |
| Synonyms: | give over, give up, surrender | |
| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | ||
| Main Entry: | relinquish | |
| Part of Speech: | verb | |
| Definition: | To let (something) go. | |
| Synonyms: | cede, forgo, lay down, surrender, yield | |
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