Meanings (ES + gloss)
desenfreno
A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)
The Italian painters have an abandon in their chiar' oscuro which mellows up their flesh tints in a way that no other school can imitate : the frigidity of their outline is another…
with gay abandon, with wild abandon
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Word forms
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.
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