Words and phrases that have a meaning related to abandon: (185 results)
Often used in the same context:
shelve, forsake, jettison, renounce, rethink, spurn, reconsider, forego, forgo, shun, eschew, reject, abdicate, discontinue, relinquish, suspend, forswear, withdraw, acquiesce, cancel, accept, cede, ditched, scuttle, accede, uproot, adopt, capitulate, quit, dismantle, succumb, revert, postpone, mothball, embrace, ignore, renege, surrender, pursue, disband, halt, sever, leave, abolish, scrapped, reexamine, relent, renew, decamp, foreswear, disavow, reassess, abort, discard, rescind, relocate, shirk, cease, terminate, abjure, defy, oppose, defer, deviate, backtrack, resist, flee, rejoin, yank, disengage, destroy, expel, reappraise, remove, join, downsize, repudiate, curtail, dump, reevaluate, reinstate, alter, betray, rename, flout, disobey, declare, kowtow, nationalize, revisit, cower, concede, europeanize, budge, embark, bulldoze, adhere, vacate, redouble, proselytise, divert, abrogate, spontaneity, recklessness, ecstasy, exuberance, gaiety, exhilaration, frankness, candor, desperation, gayety, insouciance, rapture, carelessness, hilarity, inconsequence, candour, delight, eagerness, frenzy, heedlessness
More specific:
chuck, consign, dispense with, ditch, forfeit, give up, maroon, render, strand, throw overboard, waive, walk out
Appears in the definition of:
apostatise, apostatize, betray, change, check, despair, detribalisation, detribalization, disagreeable, expose, fail, hold firm, joyous, nonchalant, reclaim, rectify, reform, reformed, regenerate, reprobate, shift, stand fast, stand firm, stand pat, switch, tergiversate
More general:
cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, dispose, fling, go away, go forth, passion, passionateness, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out, unrestraint
Synonyms:
Also try:desert, desolate, empty, give, lurch, unconstraint, wantonness, wildness
— Adjectives for abandon: reckless, wild, such, complete, gay, utter, total, sexual, joyous, careless, more, more...
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