Meanings (ES + gloss)
abandonar • desamparar • jaquir • naufragar
To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
After having opened the flood-gates to free trade, he [William Huskisson] discovered his error; but his nerve forsook him, and he could not close the gates.
There may be nothing noble in renouncing one's country, in abandoning one's home, in forsaking one's people; but is there not something remarkable in this great move one makes?
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