Abandoned

/əˈbæn.dənd/ · adjective

Meaning

Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
2. No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
3. Free from constraint; uninhibited.
4. (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
5. simple past and past participle of abandon

Example Sentences

Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels.

abandoned building

abandoned property

They explored an abandoned factory on the edge of town.

[…] your abandoned streams […]

Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.

What is the same is our need for community. What seemed different was an abandoned enjoyment of life and music, a uniquely Quebec sense of joie de vivre.

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