abandon
/əˈbændən/ verb [T]Definition
LEAVE › to leave someone or something somewhere, sometimes not returning to get them: They were forced to abandon the car. He was abandoned by his mother as a baby.
STOP DOING › to stop doing something before it is finished, or to stop following a plan, idea, etc: The match was abandoned because of rain.
abandoned adjective abandonment noun [U] (Definition of abandon verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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