Abandon Synonyms & Definitions

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• AbandonDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
2. (v. t.) 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. (v. t.) Reflexively: To give (ones self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (ones self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
4. (v. t.) 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. (v.) Abandonment; relinquishment.
6. (n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

• AbandonmentDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
2. (n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
3. (n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
4. (n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.
5. (n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon.