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a·ban·doned
/əˈbændənd/
形容詞
自棄的, 自甘墮落的, 放蕩的, 被拋棄的
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
A·ban·don
v. t.
[
imp. &
p
. p.
Abandoned
p.
pr
. &
vb
. n.
Abandoning
.]
1.
To
cast
or
drive
out
;
to
banish
;
to
expel
;
to
reject
. [
Obs
.]
That
he
might
. . .
abandon
them
from
him
.
--
Udall
.
Being
all
this
time
abandoned
from
your
bed
.
--
Shak
.
2.
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
.
Hope
was
overthrown
,
yet
could
not
be
abandoned
.
--
I
.
Taylor
.
3.
Reflexively
:
To
give
(
one's
self
)
up
without
attempt
at
self-control
;
to
yield
(
one's
self
)
unrestrainedly
; --
often
in
a
bad
sense
.
He
abandoned
himself
. . .
to
his
favorite
vice
.
--
Macaulay
.
4.
Mar. Law
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
.
Syn:
--
To
give
up
;
yield
;
forego
;
cede
;
surrender
;
resign
;
abdicate
;
quit
;
relinquish
;
renounce
;
desert
;
forsake
;
leave
;
retire
;
withdraw
from
.
Usage:
To Abandon
,
Desert
,
Forsake
.
These
words
agree
in
representing
a
person
as
giving
up
or
leaving
some
object
,
but
differ
as
to
the
mode
of
doing
it
.
The
distinctive
sense
of
abandon
is
that
of
giving
up
a
thing
absolutely
and
finally
;
as
,
to
abandon
one's
friends
,
places
,
opinions
,
good
or
evil
habits
,
a
hopeless
enterprise
,
a
shipwrecked
vessel
.
Abandon
is
more
widely
applicable
than
forsake
or
desert
.
The
Latin
original
of
desert
appears
to
have
been
originally
applied
to
the
case
of
deserters
from
military
service
.
Hence
,
the
verb
,
when
used
of
persons
in
the
active
voice
,
has
usually
or
always
a
bad
sense
,
implying
some
breach
of
fidelity
,
honor
,
etc
.,
the
leaving
of
something
which
the
person
should
rightfully
stand
by
and
support
;
as
,
to
desert
one's
colors
,
to
desert
one's
post
,
to
desert
one's
principles
or
duty
.
When
used
in
the
passive
,
the
sense
is
not
necessarily
bad
;
as
,
the
fields
were
deserted
,
a
deserted
village
,
deserted
halls
.
Forsake
implies
the
breaking
off
of
previous
habit
,
association
,
personal
connection
,
or
that
the
thing
left
had
been
familiar
or
frequented
;
as
,
to
forsake
old
friends
,
to
forsake
the
paths
of
rectitude
,
the
blood
forsook
his
cheeks
.
It
may
be
used
either
in
a
good
or
in
a
bad
sense
.
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
A·ban·doned
a.
1.
Forsaken
,
deserted
.
“Your
abandoned
streams.”
2.
Self-abandoned
,
or
given
up
to
vice
;
extremely
wicked
,
or
sinning
without
restraint
;
irreclaimably
wicked
;
as
,
an
abandoned
villain
.
Syn:
--
Profligate
;
dissolute
;
corrupt
;
vicious
;
depraved
;
reprobate
;
wicked
;
unprincipled
;
graceless
;
vile
.
Usage:
Abandoned
,
Profligate
,
Reprobate
.
These
adjectives
agree
in
expressing
the
idea
of
great
personal
depravity
.
Profligate
has
reference
to
open
and
shameless
immoralities
,
either
in
private
life
or
political
conduct
;
as
,
a
profligate
court
,
a
profligate
ministry
.
Abandoned
is
stronger
,
and
has
reference
to
the
searing
of
conscience
and
hardening
of
heart
produced
by
a
man's
giving
himself
wholly
up
to
iniquity
;
as
,
a
man
of
abandoned
character
.
Reprobate
describes
the
condition
of
one
who
has
become
insensible
to
reproof
,
and
who
is
morally
abandoned
and
lost
beyond
hope
of
recovery
.
God
gave
them
over
to
a
reprobate
mind
.
--
Rom
.
i
. 28.
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From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
abandoned
adj
1:
no
longer
inhabited
; "
weed-grown
yard
of
an
abandoned
farmhouse
"
2:
left
desolate
or
empty
; "
an
abandoned
child
"; "
their
deserted
wives
and
children
"; "
an
abandoned
shack
";
"
deserted
villages
" [
syn
:
deserted
]
3:
free
from
constraint
; "
an
abandoned
sadness
born
of
grief
"-
Liam
O'Flaherty
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