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abandoned

[ uh-ban-duhnd ]

adjective

  1. forsaken or deserted:

    an abandoned building; an abandoned kitten.

  2. unrestrained or uncontrolled; uninhibited:

    She danced with abandoned enthusiasm.

  3. utterly lacking in moral restraints; shameless; wicked:

    an abandoned and dissolute ruler.



abandoned

/ əˈbændənd /

adjective

  1. deserted

    an abandoned windmill

  2. forsaken

    an abandoned child

  3. unrestrained; uninhibited

    wild, abandoned dancing

  4. depraved; profligate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • a·bandoned·ly adverb
  • half-a·bandoned adjective
  • una·bandoned adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of abandoned1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; abandon + -ed 2
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Synonym Study

See immoral.
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Example Sentences

The abandoned and active coal mines that run through eastern Kentucky make it one of the areas that stands to benefit.

From Vox

But because they are not forgotten, they cannot completely be abandoned.

He said he spent his time doing “Mickey Mouse make-work,” digging though old records for long-abandoned well sites.

He asks why non-believers like himself are abandoned by the world.

She became a schoolteacher, but, as war erupted, began taking in kids abandoned or orphaned by the conflict.

It, too, soon abandoned the mission, finding it both logistically and financially impossible.

He breathed fierce and honest anathema on the heads of the bowelless fiends who had abandoned the babe to its doom.

The paper and the poker are abandoned, chairs are drawn towards the baize-covered table.

French evacuated Almeida, after destroying everything, and the next day they abandoned Portugal entirely.

The idea was seriously considered but, for various reasons, abandoned.

So the courts abandoned the rule founded on the part payment of the purchase price.

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