To forsake entirely; as to abandon a hopeless enterprize. Wo to that generation by which the testimony of God shall be abandoned.

To renounce and forsake; to leave with a view never to return; to desert as lost or desperate; as to abandon a country; to abandon a cause or party.

To give up or resign without control, as when a person yields himself, without restraint, to a propensity; as to abandon one’s self to intemperance. Abandoned over and abandoned of are obsolete.

To resign; to yield, relinquish, or give over entirely. Verus abandoned the cares of empire to his wiser colleague.

In commerce, to relinquish to insurers all claim to a ship or goods insured, as a preliminary towards recovering for a total loss.

One who totally forsakes or deserts.

A relinquishment.