vt. If you abandon an activity or piece of work, you stop doing it before it is finished.
- The plan was abandoned when it was discovered just how much the scheme would cost.
vt. If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
- He claimed that his parents had abandoned him.
vt. If you abandon an idea or way of thinking, you stop having that idea or thinking in that way.
- Logic had prevailed and he had abandoned the idea.
n. If you say that someone does something with abandon, you mean that they behave in a wild, uncontrolled way and do not think or care about how they should behave.
- He approached life with reckless abandon. I don’t think he himself knew what he was going to do next.