Abandonment: Definition and part of speech

Abandonment

  1. n. Careless freedom or ease; abandon.
  2. n. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
  3. n. The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
  4. n. The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
  5. n. The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abandon: Definition and part of speech

Abandon

  1. n. A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
  2. v. t. To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
  3. v. t. To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.
  4. v. t. Reflexively: To give (one’s self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one’s self) unrestrainedly; — often in a bad sense.
  5. v. t. To relinquish all claim to; — used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.
  6. v. Abandonment; relinquishment.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.