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Definition of abandon: 1. A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
2. Abandonment; relinquishment.
3. Reflexively: To give ( one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield ( one's self) unrestrainedly; - often in a bad sense.
4. To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
5. 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.
6. 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.

Synonyms:

do little to help/solve etc., dispense with, ease, give in, backpedal, abuse, allow, deliver, repeal, cede, lay down, countermand, forego, exuberance, cast off, violence, throw in, depopulate, unconstraint, spontaneity, lightheartedness, keep, adapt, mistreat, impetuosity, revoke, continue, cut down, reverse, freedom, hit out, plop, unrestraint, scoot, oppress, render, resist, break a habit, empty, slap, spare, lay off, fury, kick, recklessness, move on, cut out, get away, quitclaim, retire from, throw over, run off, forfeit, rescind, grind down, do someone wrong, spirit, free, recant, move with the times, convert, dash off, plunk, shove around, throw overboard, shoot off, grow out of, void, uninhibitedness, leave off, take off, depart from, hand over, verve, chuck, licentiousness, change your mind, make off, break off, draw out, waste, trample, drop out, see reason/sense, vigor, dump, repudiate, come away, clap, wildness, fall by the wayside, clear out, yield, withdraw from, give over, chuck up the sponge, shove, leave someone in the lurch, lift, fierceness, annul, that's your problem, desolate, enthusiasm, devastate, overturn, toss, swear off, wantonness, clear off, stick, scourge, furiousness, go away, animation, naturalness, not lift a finger, dash, redline, forswear, spontaneousness, abandonment, skip out, throw, throw in the towel, ravage, revise, drop by the wayside, kick around, vehemence, abjure, demit, ferocity, lay waste to

accept, retire

snip, disapprove, jilt, seep, deep-six, erupt, clip, discard, eliminate, excise, vent, vomit, deny, cull, belch, drain, oppugn, exhaust, trash, disallow, cut, disclaim, blackball, lop, crop, eject, excrete, curtail, secrete, shear, spew, chop, discharge, disgorge, ejaculate, check, bar, jettison, blacklist, emit, junk, shed, reject, scrap, exude, exclude

dismiss, relegate, dispose, rid, let go, cancel, dispel, part with

waive, disown, release, forgo, capitulate, renounce

depart, part, exit, withdraw, flee, decamp, embark, go

retract, backslide, cross, betray, abnegate, disavow

desist, refrain, culminate, stay, break, pause, halt, stop, close, terminate, interrupt, remit, suspend, cease, end

give up

surrender, resign, defect, quit, leave, evacuate, forsake, drop, relinquish, abdicate, vacate, desert, discontinue