neglect
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- n lack of attention and due care
- n the state of something that has been unused and neglected
the house was in a terrible state of neglect - n willful lack of care and attention
- n the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
- n failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
- v leave undone or leave out
- v fail to do something; leave something undone
- v fail to attend to
he neglects his children - v give little or no attention to
- A new study shows soaring rates of child abuse and neglect in military families after a parent's deployment.
- Children in highly developed countries suffer abuse and neglect much more often than is reported by official child-protective agencies, according to the findings of the first in a .
- A series of reports on child abuse suggest that as many as nine in 10 cases of child maltreatment and neglect go unreported.