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abandoned

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Etymology

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From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon +‎ -ed.

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Adjective

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abandoned (comparative more abandoned, superlative most abandoned)

  1. Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. [First attested from 1350 to 1470][1]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:evil
    • 1876, Alexander Davidson, A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1884, page 232:
      Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels.
  2. No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. [Late 15th century][1]
    Synonyms: careless, deserted, discarded, forsaken; see also Thesaurus:abandoned
    • 1735, Thomson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      […] your abandoned streams […]
  3. Free from constraint; uninhibited. [Late 17th century][1]
    Synonym: dissolute
    • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in The Moon and Sixpence:
      Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
    • 1984 February 4, M. S., “Celles qui aiment: The Lesbians of Montreal”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 14:
      What is the same is our need for community. What seemed different was an abandoned enjoyment of life and music, a uniquely Quebec sense of joie de vivre.
  4. (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

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Verb

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abandoned

  1. simple past and past participle of abandon

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abandoned”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.
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