Abandoning Definition

verb

Present participle of abandon.

Many have been abandoning their homes due to the violence. (progressive)
Their abandoning their homes means no tax revenues for the county. (gerund)
An abandoning husband can be a precursor to bankruptcy. (participial adjective)
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noun

An act in which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment, neglect.

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Noun

Singular:
abandoning
Plural:
abandonings

Abandoning Sentence Examples

  • She thinks Alex is abandoning us.

  • He wasn't abandoning her; he was offering help.

  • In the last year of the war she was accompanied into Guienne by the duc de Nemours, her intimacy with whom gave La Rochefoucauld an excuse for abandoning her, and who himself immediately returned to his old mistress the duchesse de Chevreuse.

  • The Portuguese being in his rear, and Wellesley closing with him, the only good road of retreat available lay through Amarante, but he now learned that Beresford had taken this important point from Silveira; so he was then compelled, abandoning his guns and much baggage, to escape, with a loss of some s000 men, over the mountains of the Sierra Catalina to Salamonde, and thence to Orense.

  • Kuchum fled to the steppes, abandoning his domains to Yermak, who, according to tradition, purchased by the present of Siberia to Ivan IV.

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