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In natural English speech, "abandon" appears in contexts such as: "stated priority here at home? We have an economic crisis here at home, an immigration crisis here at home. We have a crisis of politics abandon what we choose to abandon. And how how do you make sense in a world like that? How do you predict the". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

IPA/əˈbæn.dən/

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stated priority here at home? We have an economic crisis here at home, an immigration crisis here at home. We have a crisis of politics

abandon what we choose to abandon. And how how do you make sense in a world like that? How do you predict the

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verb

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.”

verb

To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.

“In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.”

noun

A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)

“with gay abandon, with wild abandon, with reckless abandon”

Synonyms:wantonness unrestraint libertinism abandonment

noun

Abandonment; relinquishment.

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