1. Stop continuing with some action or plan
   "They abandoned the project"; "The team abandoned their original plan";
   - give up
    
2. Forsake, leave behind
   "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot"
    
3. Leave behind empty; move out of
   "You must abandon your office by tonight";
   - vacate, empty
    
4. Stop maintaining or insisting on ideas or claims
   "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage";
   - give up
    
5. Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
   "The mother abandoned her children";
   - forsake [literary], desolate, desert

1. The trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry
   "she danced with abandon";
   - wantonness, unconstraint
    
2. A feeling of extreme emotional intensity
   "She danced with wild abandon at the concert";
   - wildness

Derived forms: abandoning, abandons, abandoned

Type of: act, cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, go away, go forth, leave, move, off [informal], passion, passionateness, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out, unrestraint

Encyclopedia: Abandon