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Definition of Abandoned

1. Adjective. Forsaken by owner or inhabitants. "Weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"

2. Adjective. Free from constraint. "An abandoned sadness born of grief"

Definition of Abandoned

1. a. Forsaken, deserted.

Definition of Abandoned

1. Verb. (past of abandon) ¹

2. Adjective. No longer maintained by its former owners, residents(,) or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. ¹

3. Adjective. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an ''abandoned'' villain. ¹

4. Adjective. Free from contraint. ¹

5. Adjective. (context: geology) No longer affected by the geologic process that created it. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abandoned

1. abandon [v] - See also: abandon

Medical Definition of Abandoned

1. 1. Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." 2. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain. Synonym: Profligate, dissolute, corrupt, vicious, depraved, reprobate, wicked, unprincipled, graceless, vile. Abandoned, Profligate, Reprobate. These adjectives agree in expressing the idea of great personal depravity. Profligate has reference to open and shameless immoralities, either in private life or political conduct; as, a profligate court, a profligate ministry. Abandoned is stronger, and has reference to the searing of conscience and hardening of heart produced by a man's giving himself wholly up to iniquity; as, a man of abandoned character. Reprobate describes the condition of one who has become insensible to reproof, and who is morally abandoned and lost beyond hope of recovery. " God gave them over to a reprobate mind." (Rom. I. 28) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abandoned

abalienation abalienations abalone abalones abamectin abamp abampere abamperes abamps aband

abanded abandees abanding abandon abandonable abandoned (current term) abandoned child syndrome abandoned infant abandoned person abandoned properties

abandoned property abandoned ship abandonedly abandonedness abandonee abandonees abandoner abandoners abandoning abandonings

Literary usage of Abandoned

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"The following estimates of UK- amounts of abandoned orchards in the separate ... These areas, in acres, of abandoned turpentine orchards were as follows in ..."

2. The Scientific Monthly by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"The classic example of this is the large cotton acreage in Virginia and the Carolinas abandoned during the Civil War. (3) Discovery that certain lands are ..."

3. Distribution of Abandoned and Inactive Mines on National Forest System Lands by Deborah J. Shields, Douglas D. Brown, Thomas C. Brown (1998)
"However, the industry has left another, less desirable legacy - abandoned mines. Before the, reclamation of mine sites was not required, and consequently, ..."

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