What is the meaning of Abandon?

To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.

To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.

To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.

To subdue; to take control of.

To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.

To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.

A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences.

Abandonment; relinquishment.

surrender; desertion; withdrawal

abandonment, abandoning

state of neglect

abandon, unrestraint (yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint)

abandonment

Freely; entirely.

the right to, under certain circumstances, waive ownership of an insured ship or cargo to the insurer and claim compensation for total loss

indifference

legal waiving of rights to one's ship that has lost trade value (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

abandonment

renouncement

Source: wiktionary.org