definition of the word abandoned

• (RP) IPA: /əˈbændənd/
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Past tense of the verb to abandon.

abandoned

1. Simple past tense and past participle of abandon.

From the past participle of to abandon, formed with -ed.

abandoned (comparative more abandoned, superlative most abandoned)

1. Forsaken, deserted.

   Your abandoned streams. - Thomson

2. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

• abandonedness

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