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abandon
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??bæn.d?n/
- Hyphenation: aban?don
Etymology 1
- From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (“at, to”) + bandon (“jurisdiction, control”), from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus, bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannan? (“to proclaim, command”) (compare English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to speak”). See also ban, banal.
- Displaced Middle English forleten (“to abandon”), from Old English forl?tan, anforl?tan; see forlet; and Middle English forleven (“to leave behind, abandon”), from Old English forl?fan; see forleave.
Verb
abandon (third-person singular simple present abandons, present participle abandoning, simple past and past participle abandoned)
- (transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
- (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
- (transitive) To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. [First attested in the late 15th century.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16th century.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]
- (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
- (transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
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Etymology 2
- From French, from Old French abandon, from Old French abondonner.
Noun
abandon (countable and uncountable, plural abandons)
- A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19th century.]
- (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
Synonyms
- (giving up to impulses): wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint
Translations
References
French
Etymology
From Old French (mettre) a bandon ("to deliver, place at someone's disposition", literally "to place in someone's power"). Gamillscheg suggests a derivation from a ban donner, but the Trésor de la langue française considers this unlikely, as the phrase is not attested.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.b??.d??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
abandon m (plural abandons)
- surrender
- abandonment
- (uncountable) complete neglect
Derived terms
- abandon scolaire
- à l'abandon
- tour d'abandon
Descendants
- Norwegian Bokmål: abandon
Further reading
- “abandon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
abandon m (plural abandons)
- abandonment
References
- ARLEF
- Dizionari Furlan Talian
Middle English
Alternative forms
- abandoun, abaundun
Etymology
From Old French abandon.
Adverb
abandon
- (not comparable) Freely; entirely.
References
- “aband?un, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French abandon (“surrender, abandonment”), from Old French mettre a bandon (“to deliver, place at someone's disposition”), last part from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannan? (“to proclaim, command, summon, ban”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to speak, say”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aba??d??/, /aban?d??/
- Rhymes: -??
- Hyphenation: a?ban?don
Noun
abandon m (definite singular abandonen, indefinite plural abandoner, definite plural abandonene)
- (law) the right to, under certain circumstances, waive ownership of an insured ship or cargo to the insurer and claim compensation for total loss
- (obsolete) indifference
Derived terms
References
- “abandon” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French abandon.
Noun
abandon n (plural abandonuri)
- abandonment
- renouncement
Declension
Related terms
- abandona
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condemn
English
Etymology
From Middle English condempnen, from Old French condamner, from Latin condemn?re (“to sentence, condemn, blame”), from com- + damn?re (“to harm, condemn, damn”), from damnum (“damage, injury, loss”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?d?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Verb
condemn (third-person singular simple present condemns, present participle condemning, simple past and past participle condemned)
- (transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
- The president condemned the terrorists.
- (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
- (transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
- (transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
- (transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
- (transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
- To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
- (transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
- (transitive, law) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
Synonyms
- damn
- (to pronounce guilty): convict
Antonyms
- save
- (to pronounce guilty): acquit
Related terms
- condemnable
- condemnation
Translations
Further reading
- condemn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- condemn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- condemn at OneLook Dictionary Search
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