"Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. — I. Taylor"
"Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing everyday."
noun
"1954: I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.' - Gore Vidal, Messiah"
synonyms:
abdicate, cede, desert, forego
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, forsake, give up, leave, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, retire, surrender, withdraw, yield, wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint