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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181. Last year, it made a wager on the Kuwaiti dinar, which became the first currency in the region to abandon a strict peg to the dollar.
182. This conditional active interest in the outcome is, the children learned how to abandon their own true feelings and aspirations, but the parents accept that part of self-praise.
183. Control: emotional, language and behavior. Think: Life, death and eternity. Abandon: evil, ignorance and betrayal. Train: a rational and humble and curiousness.
184. In modal dialogs, the Cancel button means, " Abandon my input and close the dialog. "
185. Having shown himself ready to abandon those favourite notions of Frenchmen and Italians, it is a pity he should obstinately retain certain worn-out phrases about the Germans.
186. Working hard makes you feel better about yourself and, after a prolonged period of hard slog, you feel sufficiently virtuous to enjoy a bout of self-indulgence with the gayest abandon.
187. To my way of thinking, it is the lifeline of religion to abandon the doxy and credo, and to have dialogue filled with self-discipline and reason.
188. At the party, people sang and danced with abandon, totally forgetting the troubles in their lives.
189. A word ever circulated between male philtrum very long: If date before 3 times to did not get decided word, so abandon stoutly.
190. When you have an opportunity to make a difference, do so generously and with abandon.
191. Built in the 1870s in rural Nevada, USA to process local wood into charcoal, the kilns were soon abandon due to a town fire and flooding,(http://sentencedict.com/abandon.html) but remain in good condition even today.
192. They hope their words and deeds can cause the attention of other, peacockish , egocentric, ego abandon, often react to trifling bagatelle mood too intense, sometimes for no reason gets angry.
193. Sometimes, it's really necessary fro us to give up something, and learn to denial ourselves, then abandon things of life and mind resolvedly .
194. Meanwhile, they differ a lot in the means they negate subjectivity and abandon preexistent rules and in the way they oppose reason and logic.
195. "Over time, we think that consumers will adopt the mobile phone to be the payment method of choice," Schulz said, though she added that people won't completely abandon plastic credit cards.
196. After a heated argument, the Marquise and her daughter abandon the castle, leaving her husband's guard with a pleasant memory.
197. Moving onto land may have been a survival strategy resulting from the need to abandon one shrinking body of water for another .
198. The former tennis star Martina Navratilova has been forced to abandon attempts to climb Africa's highest mountain after suffering from altitude sickness.
199. They were so excited that they jumped and shouted with abandon.
200. Zhou Yilun is very bold to abandon restraint, face to the most primitive and true instinct of human, and the desire, expansion, putridity and pretence that growing from instinct.
201. The nuclear test on May 25 followed a series of confrontational actions taken by the North, largely reversing every step it had taken to abandon its nuclear program in recent years.
202. All crew members assembled on boat deck and exercised abandon ship drill.
203. Along with Saif al-Islam, he persuaded Gaddafi to abandon his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction[sentencedict.com], and opted to share intelligence information with the U.S. on al-Qaeda operatives in Libya.
204. But when the real trial comes, they abandon us just as a hired hand leaves the sheep when the wolf appears.
205. There must be something I have to abandon after the leaves fall, is that diary written at my sixteen, or those beautiful lilylike secrets which all my life I have been keeping?
206. However, I think that one must abandon oneself to new experiences when overseas without treating one's training with abandon.
207. The agency wants to force Boeing to abandon its South Carolina facility and locate it in Washington—an act that appears unprecedented in the NLRB's history.
208. Their tragedies are due to their unpracticalness. overestimation of their own power and their inability to abandon conventions completely.