abandoned
IPA: ʌbˈændʌnd
adjective
- Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
- No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
- Free from constraint; uninhibited.
- (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
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Examples of "abandoned" in Sentences
- The island was abandoned.
- The folks abandoned the area.
- The monks abandoned the monastery.
- The farm is abandoned and desolate.
- Arsonists burned the abandoned structure.
- Ship was abandoned and the salvage was impracticable.
- The construction of the second prototype was abandoned.
- The coast guard abandoned the island a few years later, leaving the reindeers safe.
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