meaning of abandon
1. To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
2. 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.
3. Reflexively: To give (ones self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (ones self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
4. 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.
5. Abandonment; relinquishment.
6. A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
7. the trait of lacking restraint or control; freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with
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