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.
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151. Over the months the women have got to know each other, to laugh with abandon, and to touch.
152. The crew now wanted to abandon ship, and a few minutes later red flares were seen dead ahead.
153. But if the general were the unclear, we could with reason abandon all science and inquiry.
154. Termination would leave the government with no option but to invite bids for a new concession, or abandon the project.
155. What would it feel like to abandon herself to his touch?
156. We have often been tempted to abandon this task; then another battered woman would come into our lived.
157. Republicans, meanwhile, are mulling whether to abandon the notion of filing ethics charges against Rep.
158. We should not abandon the search for a better way of determining pay for all health service staff.
159. Only once did I abandon an effort to sample a specific black smoker because I could not safely get into position.
160. Why don't we abandon the original plan and go straight to Debenham and Freebody, as we're so close.
161. Much of the renovation work was already done before a previous developer had to abandon the project.
162. As a raconteur and conversationalist, scattering indiscretions and gossip with gay abandon, he was the acme of unconventionality.
163. It is not clear, he said, whether the review will formally abandon the policy or simply ignore it.
164. Toronto bruisers Tie Domi and Shayne Corson finished checks with abandon.
165. With reckless abandon, she pressured herself to him, striving to mould herself to his tough maleness.
166. He says they should not be forced to abandon their education.
167. I shall not abandon the effort to persuade you otherwise.
168. In contrast, the tubes of a tubeworm are fixed and the worms never abandon their tubes.
169. I abandon myself to you ... I even want you to abuse and degrade me.
170. Now, with reckless abandon, it promises to meddle with local-government structure.
171. When we were alone together, we were rather shy with each other, tacitly agreeing to abandon the stand-up routine.
172. To break totally new ground is to abandon the conventional rules.
173. Frostbite forced them to abandon the expedition.In 1988 and 1989 they were defeated by freak weather conditions.
174. Here we debated whether to abandon our planned route and continue along the coastline.
175. Perhaps, he thought with sudden abandon,(http://sentencedict.com/abandon.html) he should give Edith Mallory a ring this very moment and express his thanks.
176. Don't be sad, don't low-spirited , even the whole world all abandon you, still have us at least, the house of your sweet in the state - run piggery.
177. The girls jumped up and down and waved their arms with abandon.
178. The present is a moment in time when we decide to low our expectations of the future or to abandon some of the dear traditions from the past to be able to go through the narrow gate of here and now.
179. In a word, the matter appears simple and natural as soon as we abandon the extraordinary conception of the endogamous Roman gens and regard it, with Morgan, as originally exogamous.
180. In " abandon an illusion " hind, if cannot " dedicated and consistent " , very will easy by be involved in wrong vortical in.