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How to pronounce “abandoned”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of abandoned with real speech in context.
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and they're homeless and they've abandoned their families.
- Definition summary
- Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. [First attested from 1350 to 1470][1]
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How to pronounce abandoned
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and they're homeless and they've abandoned their families.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “abandoned”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. [First attested from 1350 to 1470][1]
- No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. [Late 15th century][1]
- Free from constraint; uninhibited. [Late 17th century][1]
- (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
- [Verb]
- simple past and past participle of abandon
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