What is the meaning of abandoned?

Forsake, leave behind.
- usage: "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot"
- synonyms: abandon
Give up with the intent of never claiming again.
- usage: "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead"
- synonyms: abandon, give up
Leave behind empty; move out of.
- usage: "You must vacate your office by tonight"
- synonyms: vacate, empty, abandon
Stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims.
- usage: "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations"
- synonyms: abandon, give up
Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.
- usage: "The mother deserted her children"
- synonyms: abandon, forsake, desolate, desert

Forsaken by owner or inhabitants .
- usage: "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
- synonyms: derelict, deserted
Free from constraint. "an abandoned sadness born of grief- Liam O'Flaherty

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APA	WordNet. (2010). abandoned. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/abandoned/definitions/1167032
Chicago	WordNet. 2010. "abandoned" http://smartdefine.org/abandoned/definitions/1167032 (accessed September 20, 2026).
Harvard	WordNet 2010, abandoned, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/abandoned/definitions/1167032>.
MLA	WordNet. "abandoned" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/abandoned/definitions/1167032>

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