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ABANDONED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Forsaken by owner or inhabitants
Example:
weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
uninhabited (not having inhabitants; not lived in)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unrestrained and uninhibited
Example:
an abandoned sadness born of grief
Classified under:
Similar:
uninhibited (not inhibited or restrained)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb abandon
Context examples:
My generous friend reassured the suppliant, and on being informed of the name of her lover, instantly abandoned his pursuit.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
By the end of the 15th century, however, the Norse of Greenland had vanished – leaving only abandoned ruins and an enduring mystery.
(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)
The despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success.
(Hopelessness, NCI Thesaurus)
It is all based on natural forest regrowth and only requires persistence and protection of the young forests and abandoned agricultural fields.
(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)
Then she tore her hair and beat her breast, and abandoned herself to all the violences of extravagant emotion.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Another boat had been lowered by one end, and still hung in the tackle by the other end, where it had been abandoned.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But this species, Olea hensoni, has gone rogue, joining two other sacoglossan species – Olea hansineensis in the northeast Pacific Ocean and Calliopaea bellula in the Mediterranean Sea – that abandoned a diet of seaweed to prey on the eggs of their fellow slugs and snails.
(New sea slug species discovered near condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, National Science Foundation)
His eye happening to wander upon the maid, however, he instantly abandoned the mistress and danced off after the other, who scurried in confusion up one of the ladders, and dropped the heavy trap-door upon her pursuer.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This, too, he soon abandoned.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Sherlock Holmes was a past-master in the art of putting a humble witness at his ease, and very soon, in the privacy of Godfrey Staunton’s abandoned room, he had extracted all that the porter had to tell.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
