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Weekly Vocabulary

abandon

verb

Meaning

to leave and never return to or to stop doing or having (something)

Example

we had to abandon the car as it broke down or she had to abandon her plans for a vacation.

Synonym

leave, strand, ditch, desert, dump, discontinue, surrender, withdraw, quit, relinquish, renounce, forgo, abdicate

Antonym

persevere, continue, claim, hold

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