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abandoning

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??bænd?n??/
  • Hyphenation: aban?don?ing

Verb

abandoning

  1. Present participle and gerund of abandon.
    Many have been abandoning their homes due to the violence. (progressive)
    Their abandoning their homes means no tax revenues for the county. (gerund)
    An abandoning husband can be a precursor to bankruptcy. (participial adjective)

Noun

abandoning (plural abandonings)

  1. An act in which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment, neglect

Translations

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dereliction

English

Etymology

From Latin d?relicti? (neglect, abandonment), from d?relinqu? (I neglect, abandon), from d?- + re- + linqu? (I leave).

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??.?.?l?k.??n/
  • Rhymes: -?k??n
  • Hyphenation: der?e?lic?tion

Noun

dereliction (countable and uncountable, plural derelictions)

  1. Willful neglect of one's duty.
  2. The act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned.
    • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
      To this we must contend with prayer , with actual dereliction and seposition of all our other affairs
  3. Land gained from the water by a change of water-line.

Translations

Anagrams

  • clinoedrite, intercoiled

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