abandon

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To give up control of, to surrender.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To leave behind, to desert.
  3. Verb.  (transitive, obsolete) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To relinquish a claim to property to underwriters.
  5. Noun.  A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
  6. Adverb.  (obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.