1[VERB 动词]离弃；遗弃；抛弃 If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.

[V n]

[V-ed]

He claimed that his parents had abandoned him...
他声称父母遗弃了他。
The road is strewn with abandoned vehicles.
道路上满是弃置的车辆。

2[VERB 动词]中途放弃，中止（活动、工作等） If you abandon an activity or piece of work, you stop doing it before it is finished.

[V n]

The authorities have abandoned any attempt to distribute food...
当局中止了分发食物的尝试。
The scheme's investors, fearful of bankruptcy, decided to abandon the project.
因为担心破产，该计划的投资者决定放弃这个项目。

3[VERB 动词]放弃（想法或思路） If you abandon an idea or way of thinking, you stop having that idea or thinking in that way.

[V n]

Logic had prevailed and he had abandoned the idea.
最终理智占了上风，他打消了那个念头。

4[VERB 动词]放纵；使沉湎于 If you abandon yourself to an emotion, you think about it a lot and feel it strongly, especially when other people might think you are wrong to do so.

[V pron-refl to n]

We are scared to abandon ourselves to our feelings in case we seem weak or out of control.
我们不敢放纵自己的情感，以免显得太过软弱或缺乏自制。

5[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]放任；放纵 If you say that someone does something with abandon, you mean that they behave in a wild, uncontrolled way and do not think or care about how they should behave.

[usu with N]

[disapproval]

He has spent money with gay abandon...
他肆意挥霍钱财。
Their permissiveness toward their children reflects the wild abandon of their own lives.
他们对孩子的放任折射出他们自身生活的放浪形骸。

6See also:abandoned；

7[PHRASE 短语]（船舶下沉时）弃船 If people abandon ship, they get off a ship because it is sinking.

[v inflects]

The officers and crew prepared to abandon ship in an orderly fashion.
全体船员秩序井然地准备弃船。