abandoned

Etymology

From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.

adj

  1. Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
    Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels. 1876, Alexander Davidson, A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1884, page 232
  2. No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
    […] your abandoned streams […] 1735, Thomson, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  3. Free from constraint; uninhibited.
    Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described. 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in The Moon and Sixpence
  4. (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of abandon

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