# abandoned

Pronunciation: say "uh-BAN-duhnd" /əˈbæn.dənd/

## Adjective

1. Left behind and no longer cared for by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; deserted.
   - Simple: Left empty and no longer cared for by the people who used to own or use it.
   - _Vines had crept over the windows of the abandoned farmhouse._
   - _Photographers are drawn to the eerie quiet of an abandoned hospital._
3. Showing no restraint or inhibition; wild and uninhibited in feeling or behavior.
   - Simple: Acting freely and wildly, without holding anything back.
   - _He threw himself into the song with an abandoned enthusiasm that startled the audience._
   - _Their abandoned laughter rang through the house well past midnight._
4. Given over to vice and wickedness; immoral and sinning without restraint.
   - Simple: Living a very bad, sinful life and refusing to change.
   - _The novel follows an abandoned aristocrat who squandered his fortune on every vice imaginable._
   - _Chroniclers condemned the emperor as an abandoned tyrant ruled entirely by cruelty._
5. No longer acted upon by the geologic forces that originally formed it.
   - Simple: No longer being changed by the natural forces that first shaped the land.
   - _An abandoned meander becomes an oxbow lake once the river carves a new path._
   - _The abandoned shoreline now sits well above the current water level._

## Verb

2. Past participle of abandon. — simple past and past participle of abandon
   - Simple: Past participle of abandon. Use this form after has, have, or was.
   - _The crew had abandoned the ship long before it sank._
   - _The original plan was abandoned once the funding dried up._

## Origin

From Middle English abandoned, formed from the verb "abandon" plus the suffix "-ed".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/abandoned (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).