abandoned
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- v forsake, leave behind
We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot - v give up with the intent of never claiming again
- v leave behind empty; move out of
- v stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage - v leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
- s forsaken by owner or inhabitants
weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse - s free from constraint
an abandoned sadness born of grief"- Liam O'Flaherty
- This architect has abandoned traditional cube and sphere building blocks for more amorphous forms.
- But the gay adoption boom may be less about support for gay rights than it is about the urgency of finding homes for abandoned children.
- Thousands of boats, ships and barges sink every year in American waters, and most of them remain abandoned forever wreaking havoc to undersea ecology.