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.
Phrases
Meanings (ES + gloss)
reducir
To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
And it is to be noted that in the sharpest of his extreme fits he [George Herbert] would often say, 'Lord, abate my great affliction, or increase my patience; but, Lord, I repine n…
To abate the force of these considerations, an enemy of free discussion may be supposed to say, that there is no necessity for mankind in general to know and understand all that ca…
reducir
To lower (something) in price or value.
Few words drive a bargain with Peter Eskett. I never abate one farthing of my price; but then that price never asks more than a fair profit.
abatir • humillar
To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower (someone) in status.
He is honoured amonge theym that be honoured, that fortune abateth without faute: and he is shamed amonge theym that be shamed, that fortune inhanceth without merite.
Rules and axioms for preserving of a Kingdom.[…]If any great person to be abated, not to deal with him by calumniation or forged matter[…]
Meanings (ES + gloss)
abominar • aborrecer • detestar
To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams.
Let loue bee without dissimulation: abhorre that which is euill, cleaue to that which is good.
Phrases
Meanings (ES + gloss)
abjurar
To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw.
[W]hen, guided by learned rabbis, invincible generals, and sublime and enlightened heathens, thou in evil hour abjuredst the gospel, in outward act if not in heart, and ungratefull…
to abjure allegiance to a prince
Meanings (ES + gloss)
retener
Hinder; keep back; withhold.
Whether he abstain men from marying [sic].