abandon
/əˈbændən/ verbDefinition
› to leave someone or something somewhere: Dad had to abandon the car by the side of the road.
› to stop doing something before it is finished: We abandoned the picnic when it started to rain.
(Definition of abandon verb from the Cambridge Essential Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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