OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 119

abandon

/əˈbæn.dən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
renunciar • suspender
To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
[…] he abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice.
abandonar
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.
He was abandoned on the island with no one to help him.
Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
expulsar
To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
renunciar
To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
I hereby abandon my position as manager.