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abbandono — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abandon verb To leave someone or something behind for good, especially when you have a duty to stay.
  • abandoning noun The act of leaving something or someone behind for good.
  • abandonment noun The act of leaving someone or something behind completely, or the state of having been left that way.
  • dropout noun A person who leaves school or a course before finishing it.
  • renunciation noun A formal declaration that you are giving up a right, title, claim or citizenship.

Senses

abbandono is used for these senses in English:

  • abandon A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19th century.] (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)
  • abandoning An act in which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment, neglect
  • abandonment The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
  • abandonment Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions. [Mid 19th century.]
  • renunciation (law) The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.

abandon — full definition

  1. verb To leave someone or something behind for good, especially when you have a duty to stay.
  2. verb To give up an activity, plan, or belief completely.
  3. noun Total freedom from restraint or inhibition, especially in the phrase "with abandon".

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