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abandoner

/uh-ban-duhn/US // əˈbæn dən //UK // (əˈbændən) //

遗弃者,抛弃者,弃儿,遗弃人

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert: to abandon one's farm;to abandon a child;to abandon a sinking ship.
    • : to give up; withdraw from; discontinue: to abandon a research project;to abandon hopes for a stage career.
    • : to give up the control of: to abandon a city to an enemy army.
    • : to yield without restraint or moderation; give over to natural impulses, usually without self-control: to abandon oneself to grief.
    • : Law. to cast away, leave, or desert, as property or a child.
    • : Insurance. to relinquish to the underwriter in case of partial loss, thus enabling the insured to claim a total loss.
    • : Obsolete. to banish.

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Examples

  • After an outbreak in Beijing in June, China abandoned its previous strategy of confining millions of people to their homes.

  • Today, Rollins has largely abandoned his pursuit of the bonus payments from Medicaid.

  • A lifetime after Stewart turned in her stepfather and was abandoned to his abuses, four words cut across the years.

  • Well 20 in the Midway-Sunset field was drilled in 1927 and abandoned by Chevron in the 1980s.

  • Shell’s experience in 2015, when it abandoned plans to drill offshore in the Arctic under heavy pressure, indicate what other companies can expect.

  • They tried to continue their getaway but had to quickly abandon their vehicle on the Rue de Meaux in the 19th.

  • Will he go for the schoolteacher and abandon the family, leaving behind his smashing dinner suits?

  • After the captain made the call to abandon ship, 150 people were able to escape on lifeboats lowered by electronic arms.

  • No one, of course, was “repressing” Klaus or preventing him from “expressing his views,” something he does with abandon.

  • The show started filming in Israel over the summer, but was forced to abandon the location as political tensions escalated.

  • Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.

  • In case that they would not abandon the religion which they preached, the officials of Masamune commenced to execute their orders.

  • They spoke like this because they are accustomed to abandon altogether those whom they have once judged incurable.

  • This picture laughs, as children laugh, with perfect abandon.

  • There are those who tell us—and they number many millions—that we must abandon them entirely.