Definizione monolingua

abandon

abandon (third-person singular simple present abandons, present participle abandoning, simple past and past participle abandoned)

1. (transitive) To give up control of, to surrender.
   • (Can we date this quote?) I. Taylor:

     Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned.

2. (transitive) To leave behind, to desert.

   Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing everyday.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act I, scene ii:

     Being all this time abandoned from your bed.

4. (transitive) To relinquish a claim to property to underwriters.

abandon (plural abandons)

1. A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
   • 1954, Gore Vidal, Messiah:

     I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.

   • 2007, Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich, I am Legend:

     They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.

abandon (comparative more abandon, superlative most abandon)

1. (obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.
   • 1330, Arthour and Merlin:

     His ribbes and scholder fel adoun,/Men might se the liver abandoun.

Definizione dizionario abandon

	abbandonare
	to leave behind or desert
	to give up
	To leave behind, to desert.
	To give up control of, to surrender.
	Leave someone who needs or counts on you.
	To terminate the current action before it is complete.

	lasciare
	to give up
	To give up control of, to surrender.

	abbandono
	a giving up to natural impulses

	bandire
	to cast out

	mollare
	to give up

buttare

cedere

denunciare

disertare

gettare

lanciare

permettere

piantare

tirare

Altri significati:

forsake

(transitive) To give up control of, to surrender.

break up with (someone)

give up all thoughts of

abandon (a ship or vehicle)

to relinquish a claim to property

(transitive) To relinquish a claim to property to underwriters.

(to) throw away

crush (with one’s hands)

(transitive) To leave behind, to desert.

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

abandon (e.g. a lawsuit)

(transitive, obsolete) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.