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abandonment
[ uh-ban-duhn-muhnt ]
noun
- an act or instance of leaving a person or thing permanently and completely:
He struggles to deal with his abandonment by his wife, and now having to care for their infant alone.
- an act or instance of permanently setting aside a principle, discontinuing an activity, etc.:
I believe in the struggle for radical social change, but it must be accompanied by an abandonment of the notion that the end justifies the means.
- an act or instance of giving up control of something, or of yielding to one’s impulses or to an external or spiritual force:
No psychiatric diagnosis quite captures Hitler’s boundless will to lead, his self-deception, and his utter abandonment to evil.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of abandonment1
Example Sentences
It is calculated abandonment of those least able to recover without support.
These examples make clear that neither the abandonment of workplace DEI initiatives nor the maintenance of them as they exist will result in all employees having what they need to succeed.
“Ludwig†is an even-keeled exploration of empathy through the eyes of someone who experienced common childhood tragedies of bullying and parental abandonment and chose to retreat from life instead of trudging forth.
The internal estimates are that more than a hundred and sixty thousand people will die from malaria per year, from the abandonment of these programs, if they’re not restored.
Fears of American abandonment have been underscored by the U.S. about-face under Trump on the war in Ukraine, which Taiwan has watched closely as a barometer of U.S. reliability.
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