abandon (346 synonym found)

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abandonment
abjection
abjure
abort
abscond
acknowledge defeat
ardency
ardor
back out
beat a retreat
beg a truce
beg off
belay
boundlessness
bow out
break the habit
brush aside
brush off
cancel
capitulate
careless abandon
carelessness
cast
cast aside
cast away
cast off
casualness
cease
cede
chuck
come to terms
commitment
committedness
corruptedness
corruption
corruptness
craze
cry off
cry pax
cry quits
cursoriness
cut
cut it out
debasement
decadence
decadency
dedication
deep-six
degeneracy
degenerateness
degeneration
degradation
delirium
demoralization
depart from
depravation
depravedness
depravity
desert
desist
devotedness
devotion
devoutness
disappear
discard
discontinue
disgorge
dismiss
dispense with
dispose of
disregardfulness
dissoluteness
disuse
ditch
do without
drop
drop it
drop out
drop the subject
dump
earnestness
ease
easiness
ecstasy
egregiousness
eighty-six
eliminate
end
enormousness
evacuate
exaggeration
excess
excessiveness
exorbitance
exorbitancy
extravagance
extravagancy
extreme
extremes
extremism
extremity
exuberance
fabulousness
faith
faithfulness
fervency
fervidness
fervor
fidelity
fire
fire and fury
forget
forget about it
forget it
forgetfulness
forgo
forsake
forswear
freedom
frenzy
fun
furor
furore
fury
games
get along without
get quit of
get rid of
get shut of
giantism
gigantism
give away
give over
give up
gluttony
go back on
goldbrick
goof off
halt
hand over
hastiness
have done with
heartiness
heat
heatedness
heedlessness
hold
hyperbole
hypertrophy
hysteria
immoderacy
immoderateness
immoderation
impassionedness
implore mercy
impulsiveness
inconsiderateness
inconsideration
incontinence
indifference
indiscipline
inordinacy
inordinance
inordinateness
insouciance
intemperance
intemperateness
intensity
intentness
intoxication
irrepressibility
jettison
jilt
jump
junk
kick
kiss good-bye
knock it off
lack of foresight
laxity
laxness
lay aside
lay off
laziness
leave
leave behind
leave flat
leave loose ends
leave off
leave undone
let alone
let be
let dangle
let go
let it go
let slip
liberty
license
licentiousness
looseness
loyalty
madness
make a sacrifice
malinger
maroon
miss
monstrousness
moral pollution
moral turpitude
naturalness
nimiety
noncoercion
nonintimidation
oblivion
offhandedness
omit
orgasm
orgy
outrageousness
overdevelopment
overgreatness
overgrowth
overindulgence
overlargeness
overmuch
overmuchness
part with
pass over
pass up
passion
passionateness
perfunctoriness
permissiveness
play
pray for quarter
pretermit
procrastinate
profligacy
pull out
push aside
put aside
quit
quit cold
quitclaim
radicalism
rage
rapture
ravishment
recant
recklessness
refrain
regardlessness
reject
relinquish
remove
render up
renege
renounce
reprobacy
repudiate
resign
resolution
retire
retract
retreat
riotousness
rottenness
run out on
sacrifice
say goodbye to
say uncle
scrap
scrub
seriousness
set aside
shake
shirk
shrug off
sincerity
skip
slack
slough
sneeze at
spare
spirit
spontaneity
sport
sprezzatura
stand down
stay
stop
surrender
swear off
tactlessness
take leave of
take the pledge
tearing passion
terminate
think nothing of
thoughtlessness
throw away
throw off
throw out
throw over
throw overboard
throw up
thrust aside
too much
too-muchness
toss overboard
towering rage
transport
trifle
turn away from
turn up
turpitude
unconscionableness
unconstrained
unconstraint
uncontrol
undueness
unheedfulness
uninhibitedness
unmindfulness
unpreparedness
unreadiness
unreasonableness
unreserve
unrestrainedness
unrestraint
unruliness
unsolicitousness
unsolicitude
unstrictness
unthinkingness
vacate
vanish
vehemence
waive
wantonness
warmth
wildness
withdraw
yield
yield the palm
zeal
Definition of abandon:

(v) : stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
"He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"
(n) : the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry
"she danced with abandon"
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Definition of abandon:

(v) : stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
"He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"
(n) : the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry
"she danced with abandon"
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