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abandoned

Pronunciation: /əˈbæn.dənd/

The English word “abandoned” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

  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 No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.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. No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

Etymology

From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.

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