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Meaning of abandon

- To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
- To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.
- Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
- To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.
- Abandonment; relinquishment.
- A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Crossword clue for abandon

- A band on strand?
- A group on leave
- A musical group on the Strand
- Desert, give up
- Discontinue
- Ditch
- Drop out of
- Drop out of (studies)
- Forsake
- Give up
- Give up altogether
- Leave a top boat and there’s no going back
- Leave behind
- Leave behind part of crab and onion
- Pull out
- Renounce
- To desert