abandon
The Mayan civilization went into a decline that ended with the almost complete abandonment of their cities.
High winds caused the abandonment of the second day of racing.
At the core of all trauma is a profound sense of abandonment.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Removing and getting rid of things
banish
be scattered to the four windsidiom
bin
cast someone/something aside/away/off
cast someone/something out
dumping
eradication of something
erase
erasure
evacuate
evacuate someone from something
evacuation
shedding
shoo
shrug
shrug something off
shuck
sling
toss
turf

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Departing
Causing something to end

Examples of abandonment

abandonment
Relating transformation to abandonment is somewhat more difficult, but in a sense the village, already partially abandoned, was transformed into ruins.
The crisis evoked fears of abandonment, but it also evoked fears of entrapment.
It is this infamous notion of the ' abandonment ' of older people by their families that has been prominent in the western gerontological debate.
In many of these areas the large number is likely to be the result of the repeated abandonment of houses.
In all forest fallows, ranging from 0.2-1.5 ha in size, tobacco and cotton were cultivated for a period of 3 y prior to abandonment.
In this article, we analyze the simplest abandonment model, assuming that the customer's patience is exponentially distributed.
The registers indicate dates of divorces and the abandonment of women (men who were abandoned by their wives were not registered as such).
The disclosure of infection could lead to domestic violence and/or abandonment, unemployment, and social isolation.
From another perspective, cities combine images of mobility with those of loss and abandonment.
The author also describes the historical developments leading to the abandonment of partial advance funding, as was the legislation's original intent.
The landscape is a mosaic of crop fields, secondary forests of different development stages resulting from the abandonment of agricultural lands and primary forest.
When judges read rationales of appellate decisions carefully, they may be reading to discover whether the appellate decision is ripe for abandonment or modification.
However, dissatisfaction with how realistic the assignments to this category were in some centers led to its abandonment.
Most of the hotels are long gone, having fallen victim to fire or abandonment caused by changes in vacation fashions.
On the one hand, the party labels seem to have positive effects in facilitating the strategic abandonment of minor candidates.
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