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achterlating — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abandonment noun The act of leaving someone or something behind completely, or the state of having been left that way.

Senses

achterlating is used for these senses in English:

  • abandonment The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. [Late 16th century.]
  • abandonment The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.

abandonment — full definition

  1. noun The act of leaving someone or something behind completely, or the state of having been left that way.
  2. noun In law, the formal giving up of a right, claim, or piece of property.

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