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abandonment

[ uh-ban-duhn-muhnt ]

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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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Word History and Origins

Origin of abandonment¹

abandon ( def ) + -ment ( def )

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This is a top line concern for most people and it intersects with DOGE, immigration, foreign policy and Trump's reckless abandonment of America's role as a leader in science.

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"For the abuser, this behaviour may stem from feelings of inadequacy, fear of abandonment, or the need for dominance," she told the BBC.

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There’s always been a real sense of abandonment issues that Harvey has had throughout his life, and I think that that has been a dramatic tool that has been helped by writing for that.

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Embedding herself with his family for several years, she reveals the ways poor families are stymied in their efforts to get by — lack of money, lousy landlords, addiction, parental abandonment and more.

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Some of the freed hostages have openly accused the Israeli government of betrayal and abandonment and, in some cases, they have drawn vicious online threats for their comments.

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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here abandonware

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