noun

• The action or fact of abandoning or being abandoned.

  ‘she had a feeling of utter abandonment and loneliness’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The meeting may be the only National Hunt racing in Britain this weekend, with abandonments likely elsewhere due to the weather.’
  • ‘More conservative critics found the root of his decline in his abandonment of religious faith.’
  • ‘He was rejected and outcast, and like Job, accepted his suffering and abandonment.’
  • ‘With the economic collapse came the abandonment of hundreds of businesses by their owners.’
  • ‘Expediency often involves the abandonment of war's more high-sounding objectives.’

  Synonyms

  desertion, neglect, stranding

  disuse, evacuation, neglect

  renunciation, relinquishment, rejection, withdrawal, dropping, cessation, discontinuation, termination, stopping, surrender, dispensation

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