Abandon
To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
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.
Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
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.
Abandonment; relinquishment.
A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
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Abandon Quotations
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
George Washington
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Dante Alighieri
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Pope John Paul II
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Nicolaus Copernicus
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Abandon Translations
abandon in Afrikaans is verlaat
abandon in Dutch is prijsgeven, afleggen, opgeven
abandon in Finnish is alistua
abandon in German is verlassen, preisgeben
abandon in Italian is lasciare, abbandonare
abandon in Latin is dimitto, proicio, derelinquo, desero, destituo
abandon in Norwegian is forlate
abandon in Spanish is expedir, abandonar
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