different between abandon vs rescue

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)

1. (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)]
2. (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)]
3. (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 15^th century.]

4. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16^th century.]
5. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16^th century until the mid 17^th century.]
6. (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 18^th century.]

7. (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)

1. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19th century.]
2. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.

Synonyms

• (giving up to impulses): wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint

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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)

1. surrender
2. abandonment
3. (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

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Noun

abandon m (plural abandons)

1. abandonment

References

• ARLEF
• Dizionari Furlan Talian

Middle English

Alternative forms

• abandoun, abaundun

Etymology

From Old French abandon.

Adverb

abandon

1. (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)

1. (law) the right to, under certain circumstances, waive ownership of an insured ship or cargo to the insurer and claim compensation for total loss
2. (obsolete) indifference

Derived terms

References

• “abandon” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French abandon.

Noun

abandon n (plural abandonuri)

1. abandonment
2. renouncement

Declension

Related terms

• abandona

English

Etymology

From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere, present active infinitive of excuti? (“I shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quati? (“I shake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s.kju?/

Verb

rescue (third-person singular simple present rescues, present participle rescuing, simple past and past participle rescued) (transitive)

1. To save from any violence, danger or evil.

   The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.

2. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.

   to rescue a prisoner from the enemy.

3. To recover forcibly.
4. To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
5. (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.

   Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.

6. (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
   • 1999, Marion A. Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair, Oxford University Press ?ISBN

     Jews rescued some normalcy from increasingly difficult times by assuaging their constant Angst in the family and community and making do with less.

   • 2013, Daniel Harris, The Promised Land: Manchester United's Historic Treble, Birlinn ?ISBN

     Over the course of the season, on 15 occasions the team had rescued a draw or better after falling behind, such that even against Juventus, there was an air of inevitability about the comeback.

Synonyms

• (to save from violence, danger or evil): free, deliver, pull out of the fire, save the day
• (to free from confinement): liberate, release
• (to free from restraint): release, unshackle, untie
• (to recover forcibly): recapture, retake
• (to deliver by arms): liberate
• (to rescue from evil or sin): redeem, save

Antonyms

• (all senses): abandon, ignore
• (to save from violence, danger or evil): endanger, imperil
• (to free from confinement): enslave, incarcerate
• (to free from restraint): bind, constrict, hamper, inhibit, obstruct, preclude
• (to recover forcibly): kidnap
• (to deliver by arms): arrest, capture
• (to rescue from evil or sin): corrupt, deprave

Derived terms

• rescue circle
• rescue dog
• rescuee
• rescue grass
• rescue mission
• rescuer

Related terms

• quash

Translations

Noun

rescue (countable and uncountable, plural rescues)

1. An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
2. A liberation, freeing.
3. The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril

   The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders

4. A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded
5. A rescuee.

   The dog was a rescue with some behavior issues.

Usage notes

• Often used attributively as an adjective, e.g. "rescue equipment".

Derived terms

• come to someone's rescue
• rescue dog
• rescue mission

Translations

References

rescue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Creuse, cereus, ceruse, cursee, recuse, secuer, secure