Definition of abandon in English:

abandon

verb əˈband(ə)nəˈbændən

[with object]

1Cease to support or look after (someone); desert.
不再抚养（某人），遗弃
her natural mother had abandoned her at an early age
她的生母在她很小的时候就遗弃了她。
Example sentencesExamples
- She is haunted by her former life and by the mother who abandoned her.
- And, like her mother, she was abandoned by the man she loved.
- Several actors who had supported his candidacy abandoned him.
- However, by early 2000, many old supporters were abandoning him.
- Early in the novel, his mother, Rachel, abandons her husband and son, present thereafter only through a series of inscrutable postcards sent from the open road.
- Getting to the point, one day my mother abandoned us.
- But mothers who abandon their babies anonymously have no easy way to learn of the child's status or prove their maternity in time to appear and contest the adoption.
- Her mother abandoned her on the steps of the home.
- Is it a coincidence that he was abandoned by his mother?
- I want to ask him why he abandoned me and my mother and why he never showed his face to me.
- For all I knew, he abandoned you in the desert and had come back, with you having no idea where he was going.
- His mother abandoned him and his father was a schizophrenic.
- His father abandoned him and his mother remarried.
- His mother abandoned him at the age of three and he never even knew his father.
- His mother had abandoned her family when he was just seven years old.
- He was accusing ME of trying to desert him, abandoning him.
- She was abandoned by her mother when she was less than six months old.
- As planes full of holidaymakers thundered overhead, the whimpers of a three-month-old child abandoned by his mother and father went almost unnoticed.
- Jones, it turns out, is Maggie's father, who abandoned her and her mother 30 years ago to run off with an Apache woman.
- When my father abandoned us, my mother - a shy high school dropout who rarely drank - took a bartending course.
Synonyms
desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break (up) with
jilt, strand, leave stranded, leave in the lurch, throw over
informal run/walk out on, dump, ditch
British informal give someone the push, give someone the big E, bin off
archaic forsake
1. 1.1 Leave (a place or vehicle) empty or uninhabited, without intending to return.
  离弃（某地，尤指建筑）
  derelict houses were abandoned
  破败的房子被废弃了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the early 1400s this increasingly complex culture crashed; the towns, villages, and canals were abandoned.
  You know, I thought about it a little bit, but I realized that if I did that I would be abandoning the place that needs me most.
  Omata settlers abandoned their farms and rushed for the safety of New Plymouth or the Omata Stockade.
  She guessed at where the path should be for a few minutes, but finally she admitted to herself that whoever had lived here had long since abandoned the place.
  The place was empty, the freshmen abandoned their rooms for the promise of ice cream.
  I intend to abandon this city voluntarily after completing a certain experiment.
  When they abandon their fields to seek new ones, they also abandon their village sites.
  We are amazed by the giant carved heads on Easter Island and wonder why they were done, who did them, and why they abandoned the place.
  Local elites abandoned the countryside for towns and had little contact with the peasantry.
  House builders have warned that Bradford workers could abandon the district because of a huge shortfall in the number of homes built in the next decade.
  And surely, I should feel equally sorry for myself - and for all those others like me who have abandoned such places.
  What I'm looking for is why this place was abandoned.
  Instead of abandoning the city for the suburbs, neighborhoods have been revived, like Central Harlem.
  The sites are usually abandoned, leaving the land infertile and the water polluted.
  In the Sea Islands cotton planters were unable to restore their plantations and abandoned the region.
  Smaller towns and villages were abandoned, and then cleared to make room for ever larger hyper-efficient farms.
  After months of madness in the house, they decided to abandon the place and move back to Philadelphia.
  A quick visit to let you know that I've not abandoned this old place.
  Farms and towns were abandoned; their ruins can still be seen.
  Capital intensive agribusiness and the declining standards of living in the rural areas forced small peasants to abandon their land and settle in the cities in search of employment.
  Synonyms
  vacate, leave, quit, evacuate, withdraw from
2. 1.2abandon someone/something to Condemn someone or something to (a specified fate) by ceasing to take an interest in them.
  听任（某人，某事物）处于（某种状态）
  an attempt to persuade businesses not to abandon the area to inner-city deprivation
  试图说服各企业不要放弃此区域而使之沦为内城贫困区。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Simply to abandon it to its commercial fate would be to make the mistake that was made in the US.
  The 100 towns and cities that will be inundated by the rising waters have been abandoned to their fate.
  He has been installed as a glorified mayor of the capital while the rest of the country has been abandoned to poverty, neglect, and warlordism.
  If anything goes wrong, these expendable crews are abandoned to their fates - at sea or on land.
  We abandoned them to their fate once before, and in their situation I'd suspect we'd do it again.
  At worst, his colleagues have abandoned him to his fate.
  Areas of Bradford could be abandoned to floods as the cost of protection spirals, a conference was told yesterday.
  After their 15 minutes of fame, freed political dissenters are abandoned to a life of obscurity and poverty.
  Angry survivors told how the captain fled his ship by lifeboat and abandoned passengers to their fate.
  On 10 April, the tanks moved on and the museum was abandoned to its fate.
  Look: he bares his teeth in death, snarling at the world that abandoned him to so sorry a fate.
  But, unfortunately, some parents seem to be oblivious to this perception and abandon such children to their fate.
  Under cover of darkness, a group of 30 men slipped away, abandoning their comrades to their fate.
  Synonyms
  relinquish, surrender, give up, cede, yield, leave
2Give up completely (a practice or a course of action)
完全放弃（行动，做法，想法）
he had clearly abandoned all pretence of trying to succeed
他显然不再假装为成功而努力了。
negotiations were abandoned and fighting intensified
Example sentencesExamples
- The idea of a huge ring road around the city was abandoned in the late Seventies by the former West Yorkshire County Council.
- Other countries have abandoned such practices.
- After he proposed numerous remodeling schemes, the clients opted to abandon the original plan in favor of an entirely new structure.
- Have they made a strategic decision to abandon their nuclear ambitions?
- He abandoned his course of study at 21 when he was commissioned to write a history of Australian painting.
- A small but growing number of urban, educated families are abandoning the practice completely.
- There are vast schemes, abandoned because of some caprice. There are secrets which everybody knows and no-one speaks of.
- Rescuers abandoned attempts to find survivors after they found all 118 crew had died in the flooded vessel.
- But no cabinet level decision to abandon offensive biological warfare was ever taken.
- Church of England bishops were formerly also bewigged, but abandoned the practice around 1840.
- In addition, United's decision to abandon its workers' pension plan could reverberate throughout the industry.
- On June 21, suffering from sunburn and a toothache, he abandoned the project.
- Plans for a new city centre site were abandoned when the new plans were unveiled.
- Although trained as a physician, Haeckel abandoned his practice in 1859 after reading Darwin's Origin of Species.
- However, the company doesn't want to abandon the practice, and hopes new technology will improve the return on investment.
- A spokeswoman for the clinic denied they had abandoned the therapy course on the grounds of advanced age.
- Most of them abandoned the practice of martial arts altogether.
- However, fluoridation is a practice largely abandoned by Europe and the rest of the world because of suspected health risks.
- Consistency and cost issues were key in Whitworth College's decision to abandon outsourcing.
- I was privileged to be secretary of the Navy when the decision was made to abandon the draft.
Synonyms
renounce, relinquish, dispense with, forswear, disclaim, disown, disavow, discard, wash one's hands of
give up, drop, do away with, jettison
informal ditch, scrap, scrub, axe, junk
give up, stop, cease, drop, forgo, desist from, have done with, abjure, abstain from, discontinue, break off, refrain from, set/lay aside
informal cut out, kick, jack in, pack in, quit
1. 2.1 Discontinue (a scheduled event) before completion.
  中止（预定活动）
  fans invaded the pitch and the match was abandoned
  球迷冲进球场，比赛被迫终止。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Teams will share points for matches being abandoned due to in climate conditions.
  Oil on the track forced the cancellation of the fourth race and the rest of the meeting was abandoned.
  He added: ‘As far as I know nobody was injured at the incident, although the football match was abandoned.’
  The original match was abandoned after 30 minutes with Croydon leading 2-0.
  The Festival is finally abandoned after the confirmed outbreak just five miles away puts the track within an exclusion zone.
  However, as a result of strong winds and driving rain, the team eventually decided to abandon the session.
  This afternoon's Uttoxeter card was abandoned because the course is waterlogged following heavy rain.
  The traditional parade was abandoned on March 17 last year.
  The recent heavy rain not only made the ground unsuitably soft for me so that my trainer Tim withdrew me from the race but the whole day's racing today at Thirsk was abandoned, with the course waterlogged.
  The men's event was abandoned while he was enjoying a comfortable lead.
  Last year's event was abandoned after just two days when heavy rain and traffic chaos conspired to make it a wash-out.
  Today's meeting was abandoned because of on overnight downpour.
  Three days of fog finally forced PGA officials to abandon the tournament.
  Angry councillors abandoned a meeting in protest after it emerged the Mayor had snubbed them.
  The referee refused to comment to the media afterwards why he abandoned the match.
  The event was almost abandoned because of the lack of interest.
  The match was abandoned when rain washed out play during the lunch interval.
  Sadly though, it then rained again and the match was abandoned.
  They had been forced to abandon the event ‘due to circumstances beyond our control’.
  In such circumstances sailors who do not have to go to sea do not go to sea and at half past ten on Sunday morning the decision was taken to abandon racing.
  Synonyms
  cancel, withdraw, drop, end, terminate, put an end to, discontinue
3abandon oneself toAllow oneself to indulge in (a desire or impulse)
放纵于，沉湎于
they abandoned themselves to despair
Example sentencesExamples
- With their last hope of ever getting back their hard earned money blighted, they abandoned themselves to despair and thoughts of death.
- She abandoned herself to the role, identifying too strongly with the character and failing to put any insulating distance between herself and the part.
- The jaded actress gets yanked out of her state of limbo when she abandons herself to an affair with Tom, an American about the same age as her son, Roger.
- If you abandon yourself to love, you will soon attain full growth.
- His bodyguard has abandoned himself to his repose.
- You can abandon yourself to pleasure but need to keep an eye on over-indulgence.
- Yet when the temperatures go through the roof at home we tend to throw caution to the wind and abandon ourselves to the damaging rays.
- Great leaders have the strength to abandon themselves to the wild ideas of others.
- Every year the city abandons itself to the heady allure of the world's largest arts festival.
- The common perception is that dancers abandon themselves to passion.
- Manoeuvering viewers into abandoning themselves to a story, as long as it's done thoughtfully and with respect, is what movie directors should know how to do.
- When you abandon yourself to pleasure and desire keep an eye on inner and outer balance, as you tend to overindulge.
- There are moments in the column when he understands what a hopeless task he has taken on and abandons himself to the full intoxication of giddy absurdity.
- But abandoning myself to paradise didn't last long.
- She had abandoned herself to her longing for Carlos.
Synonyms
indulge in, give way to, give oneself up to, yield to, lose oneself to/in

noun əˈband(ə)nəˈbændən

mass noun

Complete lack of inhibition or restraint.
无拘无束；放任，放纵
she sings and sways with total abandon
她纵情地边唱边晃。
Example sentencesExamples
- I drove recklessly and with total abandon as I sped as fast as I could through the suburban streets of Redmond.
- We can't go wild and start attacking with total abandon.
- I am saying that we need to proceed carefully, instead of moving forward with reckless abandon.
- He plays with total abandon and can run right through block attempts.
- In the first 25 minutes, there was some exquisite rugby, where the balance between well-judged enterprise and reckless abandon was carefully maintained.
- Later, he looked up into her eyes, and saw an odd concentration there, a lack of abandon.
- I could no longer walk the plank or shoot down enemy fighters with the same reckless abandon.
- Never had I seen him move with such abandon, such reckless expression of his feelings.
- When one party is in power, they spend with reckless abandon.
- Normally a creature of habit, he has changed coaches and routine with reckless abandon in the past six months.
- France were much quicker in setting up scoring chances but they squandered them with the reckless abandon of a gambler, certain the luck would hold all night.
- All this is described with a certain gay abandon and without any overtones of regret, yet Wright's behaviour rapidly became self-destructive.
- The bedroom is often the room where a favourite colour is used with relative abandon, but exercise caution, as it is very easy to use a colour to excess.
- The devices are now being used with reckless abandon.
- The results could be quite elegant, but sometimes lacked the feeling of abandon and adventure present in the music's greatest improvised solos.
- Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
- This time around, reckless abandon has given way to cautious and deliberate strokes.
- Chris danced with total abandon, just the way Nicole expected he would.
- Her Juliet is delicate and gentle, her suicide a mix of restrained classicism and abandon.
- They played and swam with the reckless abandon and joyfulness of three year olds.
Synonyms
uninhibitedness, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, unruliness, wildness, impulsiveness, impetuosity, immoderation, wantonness

Phrases

abandon ship

1Leave a ship because it is sinking.
弃船
a Mayday message was received before all on board abandoned ship
Example sentencesExamples
- The resultant fire forced the ship's company to abandon ship.
- The order was given to abandon ship, and she broke in two and sank shortly after.
- The men had no radio, lifejackets or lifebelts, and had been unable to abandon ship or attract attention to their plight.
- Sir, get your dinghy launched and prepare to abandon ship if your boat is sinking.
- A fire in the engine-room spread to the hold, causing the crew to abandon ship.
- The order was given to abandon ship and the lifeboats were launched.
- For an hour her crew fought to save her before the order was given to abandon ship.
- Submarines were supposed to surface and give crews time to abandon ship before sinking their vessels.
- All the ferry's passengers and crew had been ordered to put on life jackets and prepare to abandon ship.
- The boat started sinking and we all had to abandon ship.
Synonyms
vacate, leave, quit, evacuate, withdraw from
1. 1.1Hurriedly leave an organization or enterprise.
  匆匆离开一个组织（或企业）
  he would rather abandon ship now than resign in shame in two years
  他宁肯现在就赶紧离开而不愿两年后蒙羞辞职。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As tensions continue over the company's future, its executives have been abandoning ship at a rapid pace.
  Tories face rock bottom as activists and captains of industry abandon ship
  Many Britons are choosing to abandon ship in search of sunnier climates.
  If they choose to abandon ship during that period, most headhunters will provide a replacement service free of charge.
  Democrats may be disgruntled, but they're not abandoning ship yet.
  Before abandoning ship, try giving your boss some tactful feedback.
  Our captains of democracy abandoned ship a long time ago.
  Media bosses, by contrast, seem not to be able to abandon ship quickly enough.
  Some of the candidates abandoned ship beforehand.
  Many will surely abandon ship in despair.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French abandoner, from a- (from Latin ad 'to, at') + bandon 'control' (related to ban¹). The original sense was 'bring under control', later 'give in to the control of, surrender to' (sense 3 of the verb).

ban from Old English:
In Old English this meant ‘to summon by popular proclamation’. The word is Germanic and also passed into French where it had the sense ‘proclamation, summons, banishment’. This lies behind abandon (Late Middle English) based on the Old French phrase a bandon ‘at one's disposal, under one's jurisdiction’; and banal (mid 18th century) which originally related to feudal service and meant ‘compulsory’. From this came a notion of ‘common to everyone’ and so ‘ordinary and everyday’. The marriage banns (Middle English) read in church also come from the sense ‘proclamation’. Bandit (late 16th century) comes from Italian bandito a ‘banned person’, and banish (Late Middle English) comes from the same root.

Rhymes

Brandon, Rwandan, Ugandan

Definition of abandon in US English:

abandon

verbəˈbandənəˈbændən

[with object]

1Cease to support or look after (someone); desert.
不再抚养（某人），遗弃
her natural mother had abandoned her at an early age
她的生母在她很小的时候就遗弃了她。
Example sentencesExamples
- Is it a coincidence that he was abandoned by his mother?
- However, by early 2000, many old supporters were abandoning him.
- But mothers who abandon their babies anonymously have no easy way to learn of the child's status or prove their maternity in time to appear and contest the adoption.
- She is haunted by her former life and by the mother who abandoned her.
- Jones, it turns out, is Maggie's father, who abandoned her and her mother 30 years ago to run off with an Apache woman.
- And, like her mother, she was abandoned by the man she loved.
- His mother abandoned him at the age of three and he never even knew his father.
- His father abandoned him and his mother remarried.
- For all I knew, he abandoned you in the desert and had come back, with you having no idea where he was going.
- Several actors who had supported his candidacy abandoned him.
- I want to ask him why he abandoned me and my mother and why he never showed his face to me.
- Early in the novel, his mother, Rachel, abandons her husband and son, present thereafter only through a series of inscrutable postcards sent from the open road.
- As planes full of holidaymakers thundered overhead, the whimpers of a three-month-old child abandoned by his mother and father went almost unnoticed.
- She was abandoned by her mother when she was less than six months old.
- His mother abandoned him and his father was a schizophrenic.
- His mother had abandoned her family when he was just seven years old.
- When my father abandoned us, my mother - a shy high school dropout who rarely drank - took a bartending course.
- He was accusing ME of trying to desert him, abandoning him.
- Her mother abandoned her on the steps of the home.
- Getting to the point, one day my mother abandoned us.
Synonyms
desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break with, break up with
1. 1.1 Leave (a place or vehicle) empty or uninhabited, without intending to return.
  离弃（某地，尤指建筑）
  derelict houses were abandoned
  破败的房子被废弃了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  After months of madness in the house, they decided to abandon the place and move back to Philadelphia.
  In the Sea Islands cotton planters were unable to restore their plantations and abandoned the region.
  A quick visit to let you know that I've not abandoned this old place.
  Smaller towns and villages were abandoned, and then cleared to make room for ever larger hyper-efficient farms.
  Instead of abandoning the city for the suburbs, neighborhoods have been revived, like Central Harlem.
  Local elites abandoned the countryside for towns and had little contact with the peasantry.
  Farms and towns were abandoned; their ruins can still be seen.
  Omata settlers abandoned their farms and rushed for the safety of New Plymouth or the Omata Stockade.
  Capital intensive agribusiness and the declining standards of living in the rural areas forced small peasants to abandon their land and settle in the cities in search of employment.
  When they abandon their fields to seek new ones, they also abandon their village sites.
  The sites are usually abandoned, leaving the land infertile and the water polluted.
  In the early 1400s this increasingly complex culture crashed; the towns, villages, and canals were abandoned.
  And surely, I should feel equally sorry for myself - and for all those others like me who have abandoned such places.
  She guessed at where the path should be for a few minutes, but finally she admitted to herself that whoever had lived here had long since abandoned the place.
  The place was empty, the freshmen abandoned their rooms for the promise of ice cream.
  We are amazed by the giant carved heads on Easter Island and wonder why they were done, who did them, and why they abandoned the place.
  House builders have warned that Bradford workers could abandon the district because of a huge shortfall in the number of homes built in the next decade.
  What I'm looking for is why this place was abandoned.
  I intend to abandon this city voluntarily after completing a certain experiment.
  You know, I thought about it a little bit, but I realized that if I did that I would be abandoning the place that needs me most.
  Synonyms
  vacate, leave, quit, evacuate, withdraw from
2. 1.2abandon someone/something to Condemn someone or something to (a specified fate) by ceasing to take an interest in them.
  听任（某人，某事物）处于（某种状态）
  an attempt to persuade businesses not to abandon the area to inner-city deprivation
  试图说服各企业不要放弃此区域而使之沦为内城贫困区。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Areas of Bradford could be abandoned to floods as the cost of protection spirals, a conference was told yesterday.
  The 100 towns and cities that will be inundated by the rising waters have been abandoned to their fate.
  Under cover of darkness, a group of 30 men slipped away, abandoning their comrades to their fate.
  Angry survivors told how the captain fled his ship by lifeboat and abandoned passengers to their fate.
  On 10 April, the tanks moved on and the museum was abandoned to its fate.
  At worst, his colleagues have abandoned him to his fate.
  After their 15 minutes of fame, freed political dissenters are abandoned to a life of obscurity and poverty.
  He has been installed as a glorified mayor of the capital while the rest of the country has been abandoned to poverty, neglect, and warlordism.
  We abandoned them to their fate once before, and in their situation I'd suspect we'd do it again.
  Simply to abandon it to its commercial fate would be to make the mistake that was made in the US.
  Look: he bares his teeth in death, snarling at the world that abandoned him to so sorry a fate.
  If anything goes wrong, these expendable crews are abandoned to their fates - at sea or on land.
  But, unfortunately, some parents seem to be oblivious to this perception and abandon such children to their fate.
  Synonyms
  relinquish, surrender, give up, cede, yield, leave
2Give up completely (a course of action, a practice, or a way of thinking)
完全放弃（行动，做法，想法）
he had clearly abandoned all pretense of trying to succeed
他显然不再假装为成功而努力了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Church of England bishops were formerly also bewigged, but abandoned the practice around 1840.
- A spokeswoman for the clinic denied they had abandoned the therapy course on the grounds of advanced age.
- On June 21, suffering from sunburn and a toothache, he abandoned the project.
- The idea of a huge ring road around the city was abandoned in the late Seventies by the former West Yorkshire County Council.
- Rescuers abandoned attempts to find survivors after they found all 118 crew had died in the flooded vessel.
- Plans for a new city centre site were abandoned when the new plans were unveiled.
- Although trained as a physician, Haeckel abandoned his practice in 1859 after reading Darwin's Origin of Species.
- Have they made a strategic decision to abandon their nuclear ambitions?
- But no cabinet level decision to abandon offensive biological warfare was ever taken.
- After he proposed numerous remodeling schemes, the clients opted to abandon the original plan in favor of an entirely new structure.
- However, the company doesn't want to abandon the practice, and hopes new technology will improve the return on investment.
- There are vast schemes, abandoned because of some caprice. There are secrets which everybody knows and no-one speaks of.
- Consistency and cost issues were key in Whitworth College's decision to abandon outsourcing.
- I was privileged to be secretary of the Navy when the decision was made to abandon the draft.
- A small but growing number of urban, educated families are abandoning the practice completely.
- He abandoned his course of study at 21 when he was commissioned to write a history of Australian painting.
- Other countries have abandoned such practices.
- Most of them abandoned the practice of martial arts altogether.
- In addition, United's decision to abandon its workers' pension plan could reverberate throughout the industry.
- However, fluoridation is a practice largely abandoned by Europe and the rest of the world because of suspected health risks.
Synonyms
renounce, relinquish, dispense with, forswear, disclaim, disown, disavow, discard, wash one's hands of
give up, stop, cease, drop, forgo, desist from, have done with, abjure, abstain from, discontinue, break off, refrain from, lay aside, set aside
1. 2.1 Discontinue (a scheduled event) before completion.
  中止（预定活动）
  against the background of perceived threats, the tour was abandoned
  Example sentencesExamples
  Oil on the track forced the cancellation of the fourth race and the rest of the meeting was abandoned.
  The event was almost abandoned because of the lack of interest.
  He added: ‘As far as I know nobody was injured at the incident, although the football match was abandoned.’
  The men's event was abandoned while he was enjoying a comfortable lead.
  Today's meeting was abandoned because of on overnight downpour.
  In such circumstances sailors who do not have to go to sea do not go to sea and at half past ten on Sunday morning the decision was taken to abandon racing.
  The recent heavy rain not only made the ground unsuitably soft for me so that my trainer Tim withdrew me from the race but the whole day's racing today at Thirsk was abandoned, with the course waterlogged.
  The traditional parade was abandoned on March 17 last year.
  However, as a result of strong winds and driving rain, the team eventually decided to abandon the session.
  Teams will share points for matches being abandoned due to in climate conditions.
  Angry councillors abandoned a meeting in protest after it emerged the Mayor had snubbed them.
  Sadly though, it then rained again and the match was abandoned.
  The original match was abandoned after 30 minutes with Croydon leading 2-0.
  The referee refused to comment to the media afterwards why he abandoned the match.
  Three days of fog finally forced PGA officials to abandon the tournament.
  The Festival is finally abandoned after the confirmed outbreak just five miles away puts the track within an exclusion zone.
  The match was abandoned when rain washed out play during the lunch interval.
  Last year's event was abandoned after just two days when heavy rain and traffic chaos conspired to make it a wash-out.
  This afternoon's Uttoxeter card was abandoned because the course is waterlogged following heavy rain.
  They had been forced to abandon the event ‘due to circumstances beyond our control’.
  Synonyms
  cancel, withdraw, drop, end, terminate, put an end to, discontinue
3abandon oneself toAllow oneself to indulge in (a desire or impulse)
放纵于，沉湎于
they abandoned themselves to despair
Example sentencesExamples
- If you abandon yourself to love, you will soon attain full growth.
- The jaded actress gets yanked out of her state of limbo when she abandons herself to an affair with Tom, an American about the same age as her son, Roger.
- Every year the city abandons itself to the heady allure of the world's largest arts festival.
- His bodyguard has abandoned himself to his repose.
- But abandoning myself to paradise didn't last long.
- With their last hope of ever getting back their hard earned money blighted, they abandoned themselves to despair and thoughts of death.
- She abandoned herself to the role, identifying too strongly with the character and failing to put any insulating distance between herself and the part.
- She had abandoned herself to her longing for Carlos.
- Manoeuvering viewers into abandoning themselves to a story, as long as it's done thoughtfully and with respect, is what movie directors should know how to do.
- Yet when the temperatures go through the roof at home we tend to throw caution to the wind and abandon ourselves to the damaging rays.
- There are moments in the column when he understands what a hopeless task he has taken on and abandons himself to the full intoxication of giddy absurdity.
- When you abandon yourself to pleasure and desire keep an eye on inner and outer balance, as you tend to overindulge.
- The common perception is that dancers abandon themselves to passion.
- Great leaders have the strength to abandon themselves to the wild ideas of others.
- You can abandon yourself to pleasure but need to keep an eye on over-indulgence.
Synonyms
indulge in, give way to, give oneself up to, yield to, lose oneself in, lose oneself to

nounəˈbandənəˈbændən

Complete lack of inhibition or restraint.
无拘无束；放任，放纵
she sings and sways with total abandon
她纵情地边唱边晃。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her Juliet is delicate and gentle, her suicide a mix of restrained classicism and abandon.
- I drove recklessly and with total abandon as I sped as fast as I could through the suburban streets of Redmond.
- All this is described with a certain gay abandon and without any overtones of regret, yet Wright's behaviour rapidly became self-destructive.
- Chris danced with total abandon, just the way Nicole expected he would.
- In the first 25 minutes, there was some exquisite rugby, where the balance between well-judged enterprise and reckless abandon was carefully maintained.
- The results could be quite elegant, but sometimes lacked the feeling of abandon and adventure present in the music's greatest improvised solos.
- France were much quicker in setting up scoring chances but they squandered them with the reckless abandon of a gambler, certain the luck would hold all night.
- He plays with total abandon and can run right through block attempts.
- The devices are now being used with reckless abandon.
- This time around, reckless abandon has given way to cautious and deliberate strokes.
- When one party is in power, they spend with reckless abandon.
- They played and swam with the reckless abandon and joyfulness of three year olds.
- We can't go wild and start attacking with total abandon.
- The bedroom is often the room where a favourite colour is used with relative abandon, but exercise caution, as it is very easy to use a colour to excess.
- I am saying that we need to proceed carefully, instead of moving forward with reckless abandon.
- Later, he looked up into her eyes, and saw an odd concentration there, a lack of abandon.
- Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
- Normally a creature of habit, he has changed coaches and routine with reckless abandon in the past six months.
- I could no longer walk the plank or shoot down enemy fighters with the same reckless abandon.
- Never had I seen him move with such abandon, such reckless expression of his feelings.
Synonyms
uninhibitedness, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, unruliness, wildness, impulsiveness, impetuosity, immoderation, wantonness

Phrases

abandon ship

1Leave a ship because it is sinking.
弃船
Example sentencesExamples
- The boat started sinking and we all had to abandon ship.
- For an hour her crew fought to save her before the order was given to abandon ship.
- A fire in the engine-room spread to the hold, causing the crew to abandon ship.
- Submarines were supposed to surface and give crews time to abandon ship before sinking their vessels.
- All the ferry's passengers and crew had been ordered to put on life jackets and prepare to abandon ship.
- The order was given to abandon ship, and she broke in two and sank shortly after.
- The order was given to abandon ship and the lifeboats were launched.
- Sir, get your dinghy launched and prepare to abandon ship if your boat is sinking.
- The resultant fire forced the ship's company to abandon ship.
- The men had no radio, lifejackets or lifebelts, and had been unable to abandon ship or attract attention to their plight.
Synonyms
vacate, leave, quit, evacuate, withdraw from
1. 1.1Hurriedly leave an organization or enterprise.
  匆匆离开一个组织（或企业）
  he would rather abandon ship now than resign in shame in two years
  他宁肯现在就赶紧离开而不愿两年后蒙羞辞职。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Many Britons are choosing to abandon ship in search of sunnier climates.
  Some of the candidates abandoned ship beforehand.
  If they choose to abandon ship during that period, most headhunters will provide a replacement service free of charge.
  Democrats may be disgruntled, but they're not abandoning ship yet.
  Before abandoning ship, try giving your boss some tactful feedback.
  Media bosses, by contrast, seem not to be able to abandon ship quickly enough.
  Our captains of democracy abandoned ship a long time ago.
  Many will surely abandon ship in despair.
  Tories face rock bottom as activists and captains of industry abandon ship
  As tensions continue over the company's future, its executives have been abandoning ship at a rapid pace.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French abandoner, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + bandon ‘control’ (related to ban). The original sense was ‘bring under control’, later ‘give in to the control of, surrender to’ ( abandon (sense 3 of the verb)).

词汇	abandon
释义	Definition of abandon in English: abandon verb əˈband(ə)nəˈbændən [with object] 1Cease to support or look after (someone); desert. 不再抚养（某人），遗弃 her natural mother had abandoned her at an early age 她的生母在她很小的时候就遗弃了她。 Example sentencesExamples She is haunted by her former life and by the mother who abandoned her. And, like her mother, she was abandoned by the man she loved. Several actors who had supported his candidacy abandoned him. However, by early 2000, many old supporters were abandoning him. Early in the novel, his mother, Rachel, abandons her husband and son, present thereafter only through a series of inscrutable postcards sent from the open road. Getting to the point, one day my mother abandoned us. But mothers who abandon their babies anonymously have no easy way to learn of the child's status or prove their maternity in time to appear and contest the adoption. Her mother abandoned her on the steps of the home. Is it a coincidence that he was abandoned by his mother? I want to ask him why he abandoned me and my mother and why he never showed his face to me. For all I knew, he abandoned you in the desert and had come back, with you having no idea where he was going. His mother abandoned him and his father was a schizophrenic. His father abandoned him and his mother remarried. His mother abandoned him at the age of three and he never even knew his father. His mother had abandoned her family when he was just seven years old. He was accusing ME of trying to desert him, abandoning him. She was abandoned by her mother when she was less than six months old. As planes full of holidaymakers thundered overhead, the whimpers of a three-month-old child abandoned by his mother and father went almost unnoticed. Jones, it turns out, is Maggie's father, who abandoned her and her mother 30 years ago to run off with an Apache woman. When my father abandoned us, my mother - a shy high school dropout who rarely drank - took a bartending course. Synonyms desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break (up) with jilt, strand, leave stranded, leave in the lurch, throw over informal run/walk out on, dump, ditch British informal give someone the push, give someone the big E, bin off archaic forsake 1.1 Leave (a place or vehicle) empty or uninhabited, without intending to return. 离弃（某地，尤指建筑） derelict houses were abandoned 破败的房子被废弃了。 Example sentencesExamples In the early 1400s this increasingly complex culture crashed; the towns, villages, and canals were abandoned. You know, I thought about it a little bit, but I realized that if I did that I would be abandoning the place that needs me most. Omata settlers abandoned their farms and rushed for the safety of New Plymouth or the Omata Stockade. She guessed at where the path should be for a few minutes, but finally she admitted to herself that whoever had lived here had long since abandoned the place. The place was empty, the freshmen abandoned their rooms for the promise of ice cream. I intend to abandon this city voluntarily after completing a certain experiment. When they abandon their fields to seek new ones, they also abandon their village sites. We are amazed by the giant carved heads on Easter Island and wonder why they were done, who did them, and why they abandoned the place. Local elites abandoned the countryside for towns and had little contact with the peasantry. House builders have warned that Bradford workers could abandon the district because of a huge shortfall in the number of homes built in the next decade. And surely, I should feel equally sorry for myself - and for all those others like me who have abandoned such places. What I'm looking for is why this place was abandoned. Instead of abandoning the city for the suburbs, neighborhoods have been revived, like Central Harlem. The sites are usually abandoned, leaving the land infertile and the water polluted. In the Sea Islands cotton planters were unable to restore their plantations and abandoned the region. Smaller towns and villages were abandoned, and then cleared to make room for ever larger hyper-efficient farms. After months of madness in the house, they decided to abandon the place and move back to Philadelphia. A quick visit to let you know that I've not abandoned this old place. Farms and towns were abandoned; their ruins can still be seen. Capital intensive agribusiness and the declining standards of living in the rural areas forced small peasants to abandon their land and settle in the cities in search of employment. Synonyms vacate, leave, quit, evacuate, withdraw from 1.2abandon someone/something to Condemn someone or something to (a specified fate) by ceasing to take an interest in them. 听任（某人，某事物）处于（某种状态） an attempt to persuade businesses not to abandon the area to inner-city deprivation 试图说服各企业不要放弃此区域而使之沦为内城贫困区。 Example sentencesExamples Simply to abandon it to its commercial fate would be to make the mistake that was made in the US. The 100 towns and cities that will be inundated by the rising waters have been abandoned to their fate. He has been installed as a glorified mayor of the capital while the rest of the country has been abandoned to poverty, neglect, and warlordism. If anything goes wrong, these expendable crews are abandoned to their fates - at sea or on land. We abandoned them to their fate once before, and in their situation I'd suspect we'd do it again. At worst, his colleagues have abandoned him to his fate. Areas of Bradford could be abandoned to floods as the cost of protection spirals, a conference was told yesterday. After their 15 minutes of fame, freed political dissenters are abandoned to a life of obscurity and poverty. Angry survivors told how the captain fled his ship by lifeboat and abandoned passengers to their fate. On 10 April, the tanks moved on and the museum was abandoned to its fate. Look: he bares his teeth in death, snarling at the world that abandoned him to so sorry a fate. But, unfortunately, some parents seem to be oblivious to this perception and abandon such children to their fate. Under cover of darkness, a group of 30 men slipped away, abandoning their comrades to their fate. Synonyms relinquish, surrender, give up, cede, yield, leave 2Give up completely (a practice or a course of action) 完全放弃（行动，做法，想法） he had clearly abandoned all pretence of trying to succeed 他显然不再假装为成功而努力了。 negotiations were abandoned and fighting intensified Example sentencesExamples The idea of a huge ring road around the city was abandoned in the late Seventies by the former West Yorkshire County Council. Other countries have abandoned such practices. After he proposed numerous remodeling schemes, the clients opted to abandon the original plan in favor of an entirely new structure. Have they made a strategic decision to abandon their nuclear ambitions? He abandoned his course of study at 21 when he was commissioned to write a history of Australian painting. A small but growing number of urban, educated families are abandoning the practice completely. There are vast schemes, abandoned because of some caprice. There are secrets which everybody knows and no-one speaks of. Rescuers abandoned attempts to find survivors after they found all 118 crew had died in the flooded vessel. But no cabinet level decision to abandon offensive biological warfare was ever taken. Church of England bishops were formerly also bewigged, but abandoned the practice around 1840. In addition, United's decision to abandon its workers' pension plan could reverberate throughout the industry. On June 21, suffering from sunburn and a toothache, he abandoned the project. Plans for a new city centre site were abandoned when the new plans were unveiled. Although trained as a physician, Haeckel abandoned his practice in 1859 after reading Darwin's Origin of Species. However, the company doesn't want to abandon the practice, and hopes new technology will improve the return on investment. A spokeswoman for the clinic denied they had abandoned the therapy course on the grounds of advanced age. Most of them abandoned the practice of martial arts altogether. However, fluoridation is a practice largely abandoned by Europe and the rest of the world because of suspected health risks. Consistency and cost issues were key in Whitworth College's decision to abandon outsourcing. I was privileged to be secretary of the Navy when the decision was made to abandon the draft. Synonyms renounce, relinquish, dispense with, forswear, disclaim, disown, disavow, discard, wash one's hands of give up, drop, do away with, jettison informal ditch, scrap, scrub, axe, junk give up, stop, cease, drop, forgo, desist from, have done with, abjure, abstain from, discontinue, break off, refrain from, set/lay aside informal cut out, kick, jack in, pack in, quit 2.1 Discontinue (a scheduled event) before completion. 中止（预定活动） fans invaded the pitch and the match was abandoned 球迷冲进球场，比赛被迫终止。 Example sentencesExamples Teams will share points for matches being abandoned due to in climate conditions. Oil on the track forced the cancellation of the fourth race and the rest of the meeting was abandoned. He added: ‘As far as I know nobody was injured at the incident, although the football match was abandoned.’ The original match was abandoned after 30 minutes with Croydon leading 2-0. The Festival is finally abandoned after the confirmed outbreak just five miles away puts the track within an exclusion zone. However, as a result of strong winds and driving rain, the team eventually decided to abandon the session. This afternoon's Uttoxeter card was abandoned because the course is waterlogged following heavy rain. The traditional parade was abandoned on March 17 last year. The recent heavy rain not only made the ground unsuitably soft for me so that my trainer Tim withdrew me from the race but the whole day's racing today at Thirsk was abandoned, with the course waterlogged. The men's event was abandoned while he was enjoying a comfortable lead. Last year's event was abandoned after just two days when heavy rain and traffic chaos conspired to make it a wash-out. Today's meeting was abandoned because of on overnight downpour. Three days of fog finally forced PGA officials to abandon the tournament. Angry councillors abandoned a meeting in protest after it emerged the Mayor had snubbed them. The referee refused to comment to the media afterwards why he abandoned the match. The event was almost abandoned because of the lack of interest. The match was abandoned when rain washed out play during the lunch interval. Sadly though, it then rained again and the match was abandoned. They had been forced to abandon the event ‘due to circumstances beyond our control’. In such circumstances sailors who do not have to go to sea do not go to sea and at half past ten on Sunday morning the decision was taken to abandon racing. Synonyms cancel, withdraw, drop, end, terminate, put an end to, discontinue 3abandon oneself toAllow oneself to indulge in (a desire or impulse) 放纵于，沉湎于 they abandoned themselves to despair Example sentencesExamples With their last hope of ever getting back their hard earned money blighted, they abandoned themselves to despair and thoughts of death. She abandoned herself to the role, identifying too strongly with the character and failing to put any insulating distance between herself and the part. The jaded actress gets yanked out of her state of limbo when she abandons herself to an affair with Tom, an American about the same age as her son, Roger. If you abandon yourself to love, you will soon attain full growth. His bodyguard has abandoned himself to his repose. You can abandon yourself to pleasure but need to keep an eye on over-indulgence. Yet when the temperatures go through the roof at home we tend to throw caution to the wind and abandon ourselves to the damaging rays. Great leaders have the strength to abandon themselves to the wild ideas of others. Every year the city abandons itself to the heady allure of the world's largest arts festival. The common perception is that dancers abandon themselves to passion. Manoeuvering viewers into abandoning themselves to a story, as long as it's done thoughtfully and with respect, is what movie directors should know how to do. When you abandon yourself to pleasure and desire keep an eye on inner and outer balance, as you tend to overindulge. There are moments in the column when he understands what a hopeless task he has taken on and abandons himself to the full intoxication of giddy absurdity. But abandoning myself to paradise didn't last long. She had abandoned herself to her longing for Carlos. Synonyms indulge in, give way to, give oneself up to, yield to, lose oneself to/in noun əˈband(ə)nəˈbændən mass noun Complete lack of inhibition or restraint. 无拘无束；放任，放纵 she sings and sways with total abandon 她纵情地边唱边晃。 Example sentencesExamples I drove recklessly and with total abandon as I sped as fast as I could through the suburban streets of Redmond. We can't go wild and start attacking with total abandon. I am saying that we need to proceed carefully, instead of moving forward with reckless abandon. He plays with total abandon and can run right through block attempts. In the first 25 minutes, there was some exquisite rugby, where the balance between well-judged enterprise and reckless abandon was carefully maintained. Later, he looked up into her eyes, and saw an odd concentration there, a lack of abandon. I could no longer walk the plank or shoot down enemy fighters with the same reckless abandon. Never had I seen him move with such abandon, such reckless expression of his feelings. When one party is in power, they spend with reckless abandon. Normally a creature of habit, he has changed coaches and routine with reckless abandon in the past six months. France were much quicker in setting up scoring chances but they squandered them with the reckless abandon of a gambler, certain the luck would hold all night. All this is described with a certain gay abandon and without any overtones of regret, yet Wright's behaviour rapidly became self-destructive. The bedroom is often the room where a favourite colour is used with relative abandon, but exercise caution, as it is very easy to use a colour to excess. The devices are now being used with reckless abandon. The results could be quite elegant, but sometimes lacked the feeling of abandon and adventure present in the music's greatest improvised solos. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. This time around, reckless abandon has given way to cautious and deliberate strokes. Chris danced with total abandon, just the way Nicole expected he would. Her Juliet is delicate and gentle, her suicide a mix of restrained classicism and abandon. They played and swam with the reckless abandon and joyfulness of three year olds. Synonyms uninhibitedness, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, unruliness, wildness, impulsiveness, impetuosity, immoderation, wantonness Phrases abandon ship 1Leave a ship because it is sinking. 弃船 a Mayday message was received before all on board abandoned ship Example sentencesExamples The resultant fire forced the ship's company to abandon ship. The order was given to abandon ship, and she broke in two and sank shortly after. The men had no radio, lifejackets or lifebelts, and had been unable to abandon ship or attract attention to their plight. Sir, get your dinghy launched and prepare to abandon ship if your boat is sinking. A fire in the engine-room spread to the hold, causing the crew to abandon ship. The order was given to abandon ship and the lifeboats were launched. For an hour her crew fought to save her before the order was given to abandon ship. Submarines were supposed to surface and give crews time to abandon ship before sinking their vessels. All the ferry's passengers and crew had been ordered to put on life jackets and prepare to abandon ship. The boat started sinking and we all had to abandon ship. Synonyms vacate, leave, quit, evacuate, withdraw from 1.1Hurriedly leave an organization or enterprise. 匆匆离开一个组织（或企业） he would rather abandon ship now than resign in shame in two years 他宁肯现在就赶紧离开而不愿两年后蒙羞辞职。 Example sentencesExamples As tensions continue over the company's future, its executives have been abandoning ship at a rapid pace. Tories face rock bottom as activists and captains of industry abandon ship Many Britons are choosing to abandon ship in search of sunnier climates. If they choose to abandon ship during that period, most headhunters will provide a replacement service free of charge. Democrats may be disgruntled, but they're not abandoning ship yet. Before abandoning ship, try giving your boss some tactful feedback. Our captains of democracy abandoned ship a long time ago. Media bosses, by contrast, seem not to be able to abandon ship quickly enough. Some of the candidates abandoned ship beforehand. Many will surely abandon ship in despair. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French abandoner, from a- (from Latin ad 'to, at') + bandon 'control' (related to ban¹). The original sense was 'bring under control', later 'give in to the control of, surrender to' (sense 3 of the verb). ban from Old English: In Old English this meant ‘to summon by popular proclamation’. The word is Germanic and also passed into French where it had the sense ‘proclamation, summons, banishment’. This lies behind abandon (Late Middle English) based on the Old French phrase a bandon ‘at one's disposal, under one's jurisdiction’; and banal (mid 18th century) which originally related to feudal service and meant ‘compulsory’. From this came a notion of ‘common to everyone’ and so ‘ordinary and everyday’. The marriage banns (Middle English) read in church also come from the sense ‘proclamation’. Bandit (late 16th century) comes from Italian bandito a ‘banned person’, and banish (Late Middle English) comes from the same root. Rhymes Brandon, Rwandan, Ugandan verb.1 phr. Definition of abandon in US English: abandon verbəˈbandənəˈbændən [with object] 1Cease to support or look after (someone); desert. 不再抚养（某人），遗弃 her natural mother had abandoned her at an early age 她的生母在她很小的时候就遗弃了她。 Example sentencesExamples Is it a coincidence that he was abandoned by his mother? However, by early 2000, many old supporters were abandoning him. But mothers who abandon their babies anonymously have no easy way to learn of the child's status or prove their maternity in time to appear and contest the adoption. She is haunted by her former life and by the mother who abandoned her. Jones, it turns out, is Maggie's father, who abandoned her and her mother 30 years ago to run off with an Apache woman. And, like her mother, she was abandoned by the man she loved. His mother abandoned him at the age of three and he never even knew his father. His father abandoned him and his mother remarried. For all I knew, he abandoned you in the desert and had come back, with you having no idea where he was going. Several actors who had supported his candidacy abandoned him. I want to ask him why he abandoned me and my mother and why he never showed his face to me. Early in the novel, his mother, Rachel, abandons her husband and son, present thereafter only through a series of inscrutable postcards sent from the open road. As planes full of holidaymakers thundered overhead, the whimpers of a three-month-old child abandoned by his mother and father went almost unnoticed. She was abandoned by her mother when she was less than six months old. His mother abandoned him and his father was a schizophrenic. His mother had abandoned her family when he was just seven years old. When my father abandoned us, my mother - a shy high school dropout who rarely drank - took a bartending course. He was accusing ME of trying to desert him, abandoning him. Her mother abandoned her on the steps of the home. Getting to the point, one day my mother abandoned us. Synonyms desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break with, break up with 1.1 Leave (a place or vehicle) empty or uninhabited, without intending to return. 离弃（某地，尤指建筑） derelict houses were abandoned 破败的房子被废弃了。 Example sentencesExamples After months of madness in the house, they decided to abandon the place and move back to Philadelphia. In the Sea Islands cotton planters were unable to restore their plantations and abandoned the region. A quick visit to let you know that I've not abandoned this old place. Smaller towns and villages were abandoned, and then cleared to make room for ever larger hyper-efficient farms. Instead of abandoning the city for the suburbs, neighborhoods have been revived, like Central Harlem. Local elites abandoned the countryside for towns and had little contact with the peasantry. Farms and towns were abandoned; their ruins can still be seen. Omata settlers abandoned their farms and rushed for the safety of New Plymouth or the Omata Stockade. Capital intensive agribusiness and the declining standards of living in the rural areas forced small peasants to abandon their land and settle in the cities in search of employment. When they abandon their fields to seek new ones, they also abandon their village sites. The sites are usually abandoned, leaving the land infertile and the water polluted. In the early 1400s this increasingly complex culture crashed; the towns, villages, and canals were abandoned. And surely, I should feel equally sorry for myself - and for all those others like me who have abandoned such places. She guessed at where the path should be for a few minutes, but finally she admitted to herself that whoever had lived here had long since abandoned the place. The place was empty, the freshmen abandoned their rooms for the promise of ice cream. We are amazed by the giant carved heads on Easter Island and wonder why they were done, who did them, and why they abandoned the place. House builders have warned that Bradford workers could abandon the district because of a huge shortfall in the number of homes built in the next decade. What I'm looking for is why this place was abandoned. I intend to abandon this city voluntarily after completing a certain experiment. You know, I thought about it a little bit, but I realized that if I did that I would be abandoning the place that needs me most. Synonyms vacate, leave, quit, evacuate, withdraw from 1.2abandon someone/something to Condemn someone or something to (a specified fate) by ceasing to take an interest in them. 听任（某人，某事物）处于（某种状态） an attempt to persuade businesses not to abandon the area to inner-city deprivation 试图说服各企业不要放弃此区域而使之沦为内城贫困区。 Example sentencesExamples Areas of Bradford could be abandoned to floods as the cost of protection spirals, a conference was told yesterday. The 100 towns and cities that will be inundated by the rising waters have been abandoned to their fate. Under cover of darkness, a group of 30 men slipped away, abandoning their comrades to their fate. Angry survivors told how the captain fled his ship by lifeboat and abandoned passengers to their fate. On 10 April, the tanks moved on and the museum was abandoned to its fate. At worst, his colleagues have abandoned him to his fate. After their 15 minutes of fame, freed political dissenters are abandoned to a life of obscurity and poverty. He has been installed as a glorified mayor of the capital while the rest of the country has been abandoned to poverty, neglect, and warlordism. We abandoned them to their fate once before, and in their situation I'd suspect we'd do it again. Simply to abandon it to its commercial fate would be to make the mistake that was made in the US. Look: he bares his teeth in death, snarling at the world that abandoned him to so sorry a fate. If anything goes wrong, these expendable crews are abandoned to their fates - at sea or on land. But, unfortunately, some parents seem to be oblivious to this perception and abandon such children to their fate. Synonyms relinquish, surrender, give up, cede, yield, leave 2Give up completely (a course of action, a practice, or a way of thinking) 完全放弃（行动，做法，想法） he had clearly abandoned all pretense of trying to succeed 他显然不再假装为成功而努力了。 Example sentencesExamples Church of England bishops were formerly also bewigged, but abandoned the practice around 1840. A spokeswoman for the clinic denied they had abandoned the therapy course on the grounds of advanced age. On June 21, suffering from sunburn and a toothache, he abandoned the project. The idea of a huge ring road around the city was abandoned in the late Seventies by the former West Yorkshire County Council. Rescuers abandoned attempts to find survivors after they found all 118 crew had died in the flooded vessel. Plans for a new city centre site were abandoned when the new plans were unveiled. Although trained as a physician, Haeckel abandoned his practice in 1859 after reading Darwin's Origin of Species. Have they made a strategic decision to abandon their nuclear ambitions? But no cabinet level decision to abandon offensive biological warfare was ever taken. After he proposed numerous remodeling schemes, the clients opted to abandon the original plan in favor of an entirely new structure. However, the company doesn't want to abandon the practice, and hopes new technology will improve the return on investment. There are vast schemes, abandoned because of some caprice. There are secrets which everybody knows and no-one speaks of. Consistency and cost issues were key in Whitworth College's decision to abandon outsourcing. I was privileged to be secretary of the Navy when the decision was made to abandon the draft. A small but growing number of urban, educated families are abandoning the practice completely. He abandoned his course of study at 21 when he was commissioned to write a history of Australian painting. Other countries have abandoned such practices. Most of them abandoned the practice of martial arts altogether. In addition, United's decision to abandon its workers' pension plan could reverberate throughout the industry. However, fluoridation is a practice largely abandoned by Europe and the rest of the world because of suspected health risks. Synonyms renounce, relinquish, dispense with, forswear, disclaim, disown, disavow, discard, wash one's hands of give up, stop, cease, drop, forgo, desist from, have done with, abjure, abstain from, discontinue, break off, refrain from, lay aside, set aside 2.1 Discontinue (a scheduled event) before completion. 中止（预定活动） against the background of perceived threats, the tour was abandoned Example sentencesExamples Oil on the track forced the cancellation of the fourth race and the rest of the meeting was abandoned. The event was almost abandoned because of the lack of interest. He added: ‘As far as I know nobody was injured at the incident, although the football match was abandoned.’ The men's event was abandoned while he was enjoying a comfortable lead. Today's meeting was abandoned because of on overnight downpour. In such circumstances sailors who do not have to go to sea do not go to sea and at half past ten on Sunday morning the decision was taken to abandon racing. The recent heavy rain not only made the ground unsuitably soft for me so that my trainer Tim withdrew me from the race but the whole day's racing today at Thirsk was abandoned, with the course waterlogged. The traditional parade was abandoned on March 17 last year. However, as a result of strong winds and driving rain, the team eventually decided to abandon the session. Teams will share points for matches being abandoned due to in climate conditions. Angry councillors abandoned a meeting in protest after it emerged the Mayor had snubbed them. Sadly though, it then rained again and the match was abandoned. The original match was abandoned after 30 minutes with Croydon leading 2-0. The referee refused to comment to the media afterwards why he abandoned the match. Three days of fog finally forced PGA officials to abandon the tournament. The Festival is finally abandoned after the confirmed outbreak just five miles away puts the track within an exclusion zone. The match was abandoned when rain washed out play during the lunch interval. Last year's event was abandoned after just two days when heavy rain and traffic chaos conspired to make it a wash-out. This afternoon's Uttoxeter card was abandoned because the course is waterlogged following heavy rain. They had been forced to abandon the event ‘due to circumstances beyond our control’. Synonyms cancel, withdraw, drop, end, terminate, put an end to, discontinue 3abandon oneself toAllow oneself to indulge in (a desire or impulse) 放纵于，沉湎于 they abandoned themselves to despair Example sentencesExamples If you abandon yourself to love, you will soon attain full growth. The jaded actress gets yanked out of her state of limbo when she abandons herself to an affair with Tom, an American about the same age as her son, Roger. Every year the city abandons itself to the heady allure of the world's largest arts festival. His bodyguard has abandoned himself to his repose. But abandoning myself to paradise didn't last long. With their last hope of ever getting back their hard earned money blighted, they abandoned themselves to despair and thoughts of death. She abandoned herself to the role, identifying too strongly with the character and failing to put any insulating distance between herself and the part. She had abandoned herself to her longing for Carlos. Manoeuvering viewers into abandoning themselves to a story, as long as it's done thoughtfully and with respect, is what movie directors should know how to do. Yet when the temperatures go through the roof at home we tend to throw caution to the wind and abandon ourselves to the damaging rays. There are moments in the column when he understands what a hopeless task he has taken on and abandons himself to the full intoxication of giddy absurdity. When you abandon yourself to pleasure and desire keep an eye on inner and outer balance, as you tend to overindulge. The common perception is that dancers abandon themselves to passion. Great leaders have the strength to abandon themselves to the wild ideas of others. You can abandon yourself to pleasure but need to keep an eye on over-indulgence. Synonyms indulge in, give way to, give oneself up to, yield to, lose oneself in, lose oneself to nounəˈbandənəˈbændən Complete lack of inhibition or restraint. 无拘无束；放任，放纵 she sings and sways with total abandon 她纵情地边唱边晃。 Example sentencesExamples Her Juliet is delicate and gentle, her suicide a mix of restrained classicism and abandon. I drove recklessly and with total abandon as I sped as fast as I could through the suburban streets of Redmond. All this is described with a certain gay abandon and without any overtones of regret, yet Wright's behaviour rapidly became self-destructive. Chris danced with total abandon, just the way Nicole expected he would. In the first 25 minutes, there was some exquisite rugby, where the balance between well-judged enterprise and reckless abandon was carefully maintained. The results could be quite elegant, but sometimes lacked the feeling of abandon and adventure present in the music's greatest improvised solos. France were much quicker in setting up scoring chances but they squandered them with the reckless abandon of a gambler, certain the luck would hold all night. He plays with total abandon and can run right through block attempts. The devices are now being used with reckless abandon. This time around, reckless abandon has given way to cautious and deliberate strokes. When one party is in power, they spend with reckless abandon. They played and swam with the reckless abandon and joyfulness of three year olds. We can't go wild and start attacking with total abandon. The bedroom is often the room where a favourite colour is used with relative abandon, but exercise caution, as it is very easy to use a colour to excess. I am saying that we need to proceed carefully, instead of moving forward with reckless abandon. Later, he looked up into her eyes, and saw an odd concentration there, a lack of abandon. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. Normally a creature of habit, he has changed coaches and routine with reckless abandon in the past six months. I could no longer walk the plank or shoot down enemy fighters with the same reckless abandon. Never had I seen him move with such abandon, such reckless expression of his feelings. Synonyms uninhibitedness, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, unruliness, wildness, impulsiveness, impetuosity, immoderation, wantonness Phrases abandon ship 1Leave a ship because it is sinking. 弃船 Example sentencesExamples The boat started sinking and we all had to abandon ship. For an hour her crew fought to save her before the order was given to abandon ship. A fire in the engine-room spread to the hold, causing the crew to abandon ship. Submarines were supposed to surface and give crews time to abandon ship before sinking their vessels. All the ferry's passengers and crew had been ordered to put on life jackets and prepare to abandon ship. The order was given to abandon ship, and she broke in two and sank shortly after. The order was given to abandon ship and the lifeboats were launched. Sir, get your dinghy launched and prepare to abandon ship if your boat is sinking. The resultant fire forced the ship's company to abandon ship. The men had no radio, lifejackets or lifebelts, and had been unable to abandon ship or attract attention to their plight. Synonyms vacate, leave, quit, evacuate, withdraw from 1.1Hurriedly leave an organization or enterprise. 匆匆离开一个组织（或企业） he would rather abandon ship now than resign in shame in two years 他宁肯现在就赶紧离开而不愿两年后蒙羞辞职。 Example sentencesExamples Many Britons are choosing to abandon ship in search of sunnier climates. Some of the candidates abandoned ship beforehand. If they choose to abandon ship during that period, most headhunters will provide a replacement service free of charge. Democrats may be disgruntled, but they're not abandoning ship yet. Before abandoning ship, try giving your boss some tactful feedback. Media bosses, by contrast, seem not to be able to abandon ship quickly enough. Our captains of democracy abandoned ship a long time ago. Many will surely abandon ship in despair. Tories face rock bottom as activists and captains of industry abandon ship As tensions continue over the company's future, its executives have been abandoning ship at a rapid pace. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French abandoner, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + bandon ‘control’ (related to ban). The original sense was ‘bring under control’, later ‘give in to the control of, surrender to’ ( abandon (sense 3 of the verb)). verb.1 phr.
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