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  1. abandoningnoun

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Abandoninga verbal noun

    Desertion, forsaking.

    Etymology: from abandon.

    He hoped his past meritorious actions might outweigh his present, abandoning the thought of future action. Edward Hyde, b. viii.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Abandoning

    of Abandon

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of abandoning in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of abandoning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of abandoning in a Sentence

  1. President Barack Obama:

    They can't beat us on the battlefield, so they try to terrorize us into being afraid, and changing our patterns of behavior, and panicking, and abandoning our allies and partners, and retreating from the world.

  2. Bryan Gibson:

    To justify abandoning them on the basis of them not helping during the Second World War is outrageous.

  3. Julie Leask:

    Only two thirds of the doctors actually attended the training, and the session was pragmatically brief to fit in with the realities of busy clinicians, we need to be very careful in not abandoning an intervention that may have not been delivered to enough people in enough of a dose.

  4. Michele Hanisee:

    The centerpiece of Newsom's proposal would require a license to sell, and a background check just to buy, a box of ammunition, this would require the creation of another complicated, expensive and inevitably flawed database, which California officials will be unable to effectively maintain. New York already tried this approach, abandoning it after wasting millions of public dollars.

  5. Shawna Cohn:

    Unless someone is having issues with their equipment or access, has personally had a bad customer service experience, or joined during quarantine, didn't like it and are now back at a gym, I can't imagine anyone abandoning ship because of the stock price and PR, the bigger risk to me is my favorite instructors leaving or the company drastically changing the content.

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  • التخلي عنArabic
  • వదిలిపెట్టిTelugu

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