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aband en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /əˈbænd/ (General-American)
  • /əˈbænd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Clipping of abandon.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To desert; to forsake.
    • Two brethren were their Capitaines, which hight Hengiſt and Horſus, well approov’d in warre, And both of them men of renowmed might; Who making vantage of their civill iarre, And of thoſe forreiners, which came from farre, Grew great, and got large portions of land, That in the Realme ere long they ſtronger arre, Then they which ſought at firſt their helping hand, And Vortiger enforc’t the kingdome to aband. 1590, Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene, Second Booke, Canto X., page 108:

Forms

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abands Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
abanded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
abanded Tense=Past lexicographic
abanding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic