Abandoning Synonyms and Antonyms

To yield (oneself) unrestrainedly, as to a particular impulse
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. surrendering
To cease trying to accomplish or continue
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stopping
  2. remitting
  3. relinquishing
  4. quitting
  5. discontinuing
  6. desisting
To let (something) go
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. yielding
  2. surrendering
  3. relinquishing
  4. forgoing
  5. ceding

Words Related to Abandoning

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Abandoning Sentence Examples

  • She thinks Alex is abandoning us.

  • He wasn't abandoning her; he was offering help.

  • In the last year of the war she was accompanied into Guienne by the duc de Nemours, her intimacy with whom gave La Rochefoucauld an excuse for abandoning her, and who himself immediately returned to his old mistress the duchesse de Chevreuse.

  • The Portuguese being in his rear, and Wellesley closing with him, the only good road of retreat available lay through Amarante, but he now learned that Beresford had taken this important point from Silveira; so he was then compelled, abandoning his guns and much baggage, to escape, with a loss of some s000 men, over the mountains of the Sierra Catalina to Salamonde, and thence to Orense.

  • Kuchum fled to the steppes, abandoning his domains to Yermak, who, according to tradition, purchased by the present of Siberia to Ivan IV.

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