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[ noun ] the act of giving something up
Used in print (The New York Times,...)And it also stayed the hands of thousands of brooding incompetents who were meditating the abandonment of a sport whose frustrations were driving them to despair . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)For a time following the abandonment of the local plant , electric_current for Manchester was brought_in from the south with an emergency tie-in with the Vermont_Marble_Company system to_the_north . |
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[ noun ] withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility
Examples "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)That this abandonment takes_place on a stage , during an ' artistic ' performance , is enough to associate Jacoby with art , and to bring_down upon him the punishment for art ; that_is , he is suspect , guilty , punishable , as is anyone in Mann 's stories who produces illusion , and this is true even_though the constant elements of the artist nature , technique , magic , guilt and suffering , are divided in this story between Jacoby and La^utner . Related terms withdrawal abscondment absence_without_leave deviationism defect |
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