abandon

Noun

• a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
  • the wildness of his anger
    

• the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry
  • she danced with abandon
    

Verb

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
  • The mother deserted her children
    

• stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
  • He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage
    
  • Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations
    

• leave behind empty; move out of
  • You must vacate your office by tonight
    

• give up with the intent of never claiming again
  • Abandon your life to God
    
  • She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti
    
  • We gave the drowning victim up for dead
    

• forsake, leave behind
  • We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  wildness , wantonness , unconstraint , forsake , desolate , desert , give up , vacate , empty