Synonym: cease, depart, desert, discard, discontinue, evacuate, forsake, leave, quit, relinquish, surrender, withdraw. Antonym: conserve, maintain, retain. Similar words: hand on, off and on, a bad egg, have a ball, database, ban, band, urban. Meaning: [ə'bændən] 
n. 1. the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry 2. a feeling of extreme emotional intensity. v. 1. forsake, leave behind 2. stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims 3. give up with the intent of never claiming again 4. leave behind empty; move out of 5. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.
n. 1. the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry 2. a feeling of extreme emotional intensity. v. 1. forsake, leave behind 2. stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims 3. give up with the intent of never claiming again 4. leave behind empty; move out of 5. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch. 
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61. They have to find the fathers who abandon their children and make them pay maintenance.
62. If disturbed, the bird may abandon the nest, leaving the chicks to die.
63. I remember one time we had to abandon our car in the snow.
64. The market might abandon the stock, and knock down its price.
65. The storm got worse and worse. Finally, I was obliged to abandon the car and continue on foot.
66. We were unable to get funding and therefore had to abandon the project.
67. They had perforce to abandon the attempt on the summit.
68. She lay sprawled across the sofa, in an attitude of complete abandon.
69. The president should abandon his hard line in the region.
70. Shop assistants abandon customers to pinch its cheek.
71. He called on them to abandon their armed struggle.
72. Rather than joyous abandon, I am full of thought.
73. We do not intend to abandon this policy.
74. Robed cultists danced with moderate abandon.
75. He was discouraged(sentencedict.com), ready to abandon ship.
76. We make ready to abandon ship!
77. Of course I don't want to abandon ship.
78. Hamilton spent the company's money with reckless abandon.
79. It's a nuisance having to abandon my belongings, though.
80. He was the first to realize that you can abandon divine creation of species without abandoning the argument from design.
81. There was increased pressure on North Korea to abandon nuclear arms development.
82. Charles realized that he must abandon the attempt to re-assert the Forest rights enjoyed by his medieval predecessors.
83. But politicians have borrowed decency from these words with such abandon, they are bankrupt.
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84. No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.
85. The shadow cabinet decided in April 1912 that it would abandon the referendum idea and return to the full tariff policy.
86. For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them. Thich Nhat Hanh 
87. Gritting her teeth, she lowered her head, and barged through them, swinging the cable-cutters with wild abandon.
88. As news about the archdiocesan report began to circulate, the pressure increased on Ray McGovern to abandon his protest.
89. And yet woman is coerced through submission to the Symbolic order to abandon feminine desire and a peculiarly feminine relation to origins.
90. Ribault soon had to abandon the other two ships, the last reminders of a planned Huguenot empire.