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a·ban·doned

(ə-băn′dənd)

adj.

1. Deserted; forsaken.

2. Exuberantly enthusiastic.

3. Recklessly unrestrained.

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abandoned

(əˈbændənd)

adj

1. deserted: an abandoned windmill.

2. forsaken: an abandoned child.

3. unrestrained; uninhibited: wild, abandoned dancing.

4. depraved; profligate

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a•ban•doned

(əˈbæn dənd)

adj.

1. forsaken or deserted: an abandoned building.

2. unrestrained or uninhibited.

3. utterly lacking in moral restraints.

[1350–1400]

a•ban′doned•ly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	abandoned - forsaken by owner or inhabitants ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse" deserted, derelict uninhabited - not having inhabitants; not lived in; "an uninhabited island"; "gaping doors of uninhabited houses"
	2.	abandoned - free from constraint; "an abandoned sadness born of grief"- Liam O'Flaherty uninhibited - not inhibited or restrained; "uninhibited exuberance"

abandoned

adjective

1. unoccupied, empty, deserted, vacant, derelict, uninhabited abandoned buildings that become a breeding ground for crime
unoccupied kept, claimed, maintained, occupied

2. deserted, dropped, rejected, neglected, stranded, ditched, discarded, relinquished, left, forsaken, cast off, jilted, cast aside, cast out, cast away a newsreel of abandoned children suffering from cold and hunger

3. uninhibited, wild, uncontrolled, unbridled, unrestrained, unconstrained people who enjoy wild, abandoned lovemaking
uninhibited conscious, restrained, inhibited

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abandoned

adjective

1. Having been given up and left alone:

bereft, derelict, deserted, desolate, forlorn, forsaken, lorn.

2. Lacking in moral restraint:

dissipated, dissolute, fast, gay, incontinent, licentious, profligate, rakish, unbridled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, ungoverned, uninhibited, unrestrained, wanton, wild.

Translations

خَلِيع، مُتَهَتِّكمَهْجور، مَتْروك

nemravnýnestoudnýopuštěný

efterladtforladtløsagtigskamløs

hemmungslos öde verlassen

abandonado desvergonzado inmoral

abandonné dévergondé dissolu

ofurselduryfirgefinn

forlatt løsaktig umoralsk

opuščen

arsızterkedilmişutanmaz

无耻的被丢弃的

abandoned

[əˈbændənd] ADJ

1. (= deserted) [house, building] → abandonado, desierto; [child] → abandonado, desamparado; [vehicle, pet] → abandonado

2. (= unrestrained) [manner] → desinhibido, desenfrenado
in an abandoned fashion → con abandono, desenfrenadamente

3. (o.f.) (= dissolute) an abandoned woman → una mujer perdida or de conducta dudosa

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abandoned

[əˈbændənd] adj

[building, mine, car] → abandonné(e)

[child] → abandonné(e)

(= unrestrained) → sans retenue

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abandoned

adj

(= dissolute) → verkommen

(= unrestrained) dancing → selbstvergessen, hingebungsvoll, hemmungslos (pej); joy → unbändig

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abandoned

[əˈbændənd] adj (unrestrained, manner) → disinvolto/a, spontaneo/a

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abandon

(əˈbӕndən) verb

1. to leave, not intending to return to. They abandoned the stolen car.

2. to give (oneself) completely to. He abandoned himself to despair.

aˈbandoned adjective

1. shameless. an abandoned young woman.

2. having been left without any intention of returning to or reclaiming. The police found the abandoned car.

aˈbandonment noun

Lack of money led to the abandonment of this plan.

abandoned

a. abandonado-a; irresponsable.

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case, wherein a gentleman, after in vain trying to bridle his wife's viciousness, had at last abandoned her upon the seas of life; but in the course of years, repenting of that step, he instituted an action to recover possession of her.

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He despises that feeling in me, but he knows that I won't abandon my child, that I can't abandon my child, that there could be no life for me without my child, even with him whom I love; but that if I abandoned my child and ran away from him, I should be acting like the most infamous, basest of women.

She felt that the position in the world that she enjoyed, and that had seemed to her of so little consequence in the morning, that this position was precious to her, that she would not have the strength to exchange it for the shameful position of a woman who has abandoned husband and child to join her lover; that however much she might struggle, she could not be stronger than herself.

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- Mad River Abandoned.- Arrival at Henry's Fort.- Detachment of Robinson, Hoback, and Rezner to Trap.- Mr.

It may seem a desperate chance to trust to the faith and honesty of two such vagabonds; but, as the horses would have, at all events, to be abandoned, and would otherwise become the property of the first vagrant horde that should encounter them, it was one chance in favor of their being regained.

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The hunters immediately abandoned the dangerous hunting ground, and accompanied the Flatheads to their village.

This threw the rest into confusion; they endeavored to protect their unhorsed comrades from the furious assaults of the whites; but, after a scene of "confusion worse confounded," horses and mules were abandoned, and the Indians betook themselves to the bushes.

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(quite mistaken, as he soon found, in supposing the thing to have been abandoned by all authorities) published some ingenious letters to me at the time when that event was chronicled, arguing that spontaneous combustion could not possibly be.

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Felton was a Puritan; he abandoned the hand of this woman to kiss her feet.

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He could not bear the idea of letting the enemy even reach Smolensk, still less could he contemplate the burning of Moscow, and when our armies did unite he was displeased that Smolensk was abandoned and burned without a general engagement having been fought under its walls.

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Mr Western and his nephew were not known to one another; nor indeed would the former have taken any notice of the latter if he had known him; for, this being a stolen match, and consequently an unnatural one in the opinion of the good squire, he had, from the time of her committing it, abandoned the poor young creature, who was then no more than eighteen, as a monster, and had never since suffered her to be named in his presence.

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He attempted a diary -- but nothing happened dur- ing three days, and so he abandoned it.