Thesaurus: abandon

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1. v. t. To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
2. v. t. To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.
3. v. t. Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control">self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
4. v. t. To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.
5. v. Abandonment; relinquishment.
6. n. A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
7. n. the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry
8. n. a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
9. v. forsake, leave behind
10. v. give up with the intent of never claiming again
11. v. leave behind empty; move out of
12. v. stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims