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abandon verb ( LEAVE )
/əˈbæn.dən/ v [T] Definition
to leave a place, thing or person forever
We had to abandon the car.
By the time the rebel troops arrived, the village had already been abandoned.
As a baby he'd been abandoned by his mother.
We were sinking fast, and the captain gave the order to abandon ship.
abandoned adjective
/əˈbæn.dənd/ adj abandonment noun
/əˈbæn.dən.mənt/ n [U] (Definition of abandon verb (LEAVE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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