abandonment
abandon
noun
 literaryuk /əˈbæn.dən/ us /əˈbæn.dən/
 with (gay/wild) abandon
in a completely uncontrolled way: 尽情;放纵
We danced with wild abandon.我们纵情舞蹈。

abandon | American Dictionary

abandon
verb[ T ]
us/əˈbæn·dən/
to leave behind or run away from someone or something, or to give up something:
Air attacks forced the villagers to abandon their homes.
The weather was so bad, we abandoned our plans for a picnic.

abandonment

noun[ U ]us/əˈbæn·dən·mənt/
Archeologists don’t know what could have caused a mass abandonment of the area.

abandon | Business English

abandon
verb[ T ]
uk /əˈbændən/us
to stop an activity before it is finished, usually because you think you cannot succeed:
abandon a project/plan/an ideaThe car maker has abandoned its plans to build a giant new plant.
abandon a lawsuit/case/claimThe high cost of legal representation can influence a person's decision about whether to abandon a claim.
to leave a person, place, or thing that needs you to care for them:
He kept the company going because he didn't want to abandon his staff.
A vehicle had been abandoned on the side of the road.
INSURANCE
to allow an insurance company to keep property that has been lost or damaged, in exchange for an insurance payment

abandonment

noun[ U ]
High winds forced the abandonment of efforts to erect the structure.

Examples of abandon

abandon
However, they soon were forced to abandon these plans after running into a powerful barrage of criticism.
However, this does not warrant totally abandoning the notion of separate senses, particularly in light of evidence of limits in cross-modal representations.
They lost virtually all their cattle and were left with the choice of abandoning the lobola system or finding a new lobola currency.
However, surgery directed to the treatment of the failing systemic ventricle should be abandoned in favor of heart transplantation.
Reasons for abandoning the trial included sickness of the farmer and the desire to grow crops other than maize at the experimental site.
The efforts were soon abandoned for a watered-down version of no beef-eating and less drinking.
This project engaged some attention, but it was soon felt to be impracticable, and the thought was consequently abandoned.
But as soon as costs and benefits are assigned to separate persons, maximisation should be abandoned.
Relating transformation to abandonment is somewhat more difficult, but in a sense the village, already partially abandoned, was transformed into ruins.
The tendency to focus exclusively or predominantly on the role of economic factors in processes of political change ought to be rethought and perhaps abandoned.
The behavioural details that dominated in the earlier production are now abandoned in favour of psychological states and their nuances.
Rather, she has not begun, or has abandoned, a parental project.
Projects begun in southern universities on revolutionary republicanism in the 1960s and 1970s were, in some instances, delayed for decades or abandoned altogether.
The last explosion fires, very far away, have abandoned their long reverberations and are exhausted as they trail away.
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