| abandon | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. abandon, unconstraint, wantonness | the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry.; "she danced with abandon" |
| ~ unrestraint | the quality of lacking restraint. |
| n. (feeling) | 2. abandon, wildness | a feeling of extreme emotional intensity.; "the wildness of his anger" |
| ~ passion, passionateness | a strong feeling or emotion. |
| v. (possession) | 3. abandon | forsake, leave behind.; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot" |
| ~ cast aside, cast away, chuck out, discard, throw away, toss away, toss out, cast out, dispose, put away, throw out, fling, toss | throw or cast away.; "Put away your worries" |
| ~ chuck, ditch | throw away.; "Chuck these old notes" |
| ~ dispense with | forgo or do or go without. |
| ~ forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forego, forgo | lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime.; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property" |
| ~ consign | commit forever; commit irrevocably. |
| v. (possession) | 4. abandon, give up | give up with the intent of never claiming again.; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead" |
| ~ foreswear, relinquish, renounce, quit | turn away from; give up.; "I am foreswearing women forever" |
| v. (motion) | 5. abandon, empty, vacate | leave behind empty; move out of.; "You must vacate your office by tonight" |
| ~ go forth, leave, go away | go away from a place.; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. abandon, give up | stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims.; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations" |
| ~ ease up, give way, move over, yield, give | move in order to make room for someone for something.; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" |
| ~ cave in, collapse, fall in, give way, founder, give, break | break down, literally or metaphorically.; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. abandon, desert, desolate, forsake | leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.; "The mother deserted her children" |
| ~ leave | go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness.; "She left a mess when she moved out"; "His good luck finally left him"; "her husband left her after 20 years of marriage"; "she wept thinking she had been left behind" |
| ~ expose | abandon by leaving out in the open air.; "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"; "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned" |
| ~ walk out | leave suddenly, often as an expression of disapproval.; "She walked out on her husband and children" |
| ~ ditch | forsake.; "ditch a lover" |
| ~ maroon, strand | leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue.; "the travellers were marooned" |
| desert | | |
| n. (location) | 1. desert | arid land with little or no vegetation. |
| ~ biome | a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate. |
| ~ oasis | a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface). |
| ~ parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel | an extended area of land. |
| ~ great arabian desert, arabian desert | a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia. |
| ~ arabian desert, eastern desert | a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea. |
| ~ atacama desert | a desert in northern Chile rich in nitrate and copper deposits. |
| ~ australian desert, great australian desert | general name given to all desert areas in Australia. |
| ~ black rock desert | a desert in northwestern Nevada. |
| ~ chihuahuan desert | a desert in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico. |
| ~ colorado desert | an arid region of southeastern California. |
| ~ dasht-e-kavir, great salt desert, kavir desert | a salt desert in north central Iran. |
| ~ dasht-e-lut, lut desert | a desert in eastern Iran. |
| ~ death valley | a desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America. |
| ~ gibson desert | a desert area in western Australia. |
| ~ gila desert | a desert area in southern Arizona. |
| ~ gobi, gobi desert | a desert in central China. |
| ~ great sandy desert | a desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert. |
| ~ great victoria desert | a desert region in south central Australia to the north of the Nullarbor Plain. |
| ~ kalahari, kalahari desert | a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana. |
| ~ kara kum, qara qum, turkestan desert | a desert in Turkmenistan to the south of the Aral Sea. |
| ~ kizil kum, kyzyl kum, qizil qum | a desert in Uzbekistan to the southeast of the Aral Sea. |
| ~ libyan desert | the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan. |
| ~ mohave desert, mojave desert, mohave, mojave | a desert area in southern California and western Arizona. |
| ~ namib desert | a desert in Namibia extending along the coast between the high plateau and the Atlantic Ocean. |
| ~ an nafud, an nefud, nafud, nefud | a desert in northern Saudi Arabia that is noted for its red sand and violent winds. |
| ~ negev, negev desert | a desert in southern Israel. |
| ~ nubian desert | an arid sandstone plateau in northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea. |
| ~ painted desert | a desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona. |
| ~ patagonian desert | a semiarid region in southern South America. |
| ~ ar rimsal, dahna, great sandy desert, rub al-khali | a desert in southern Saudi Arabia. |
| ~ sahara, sahara desert | the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa. |
| ~ simpson desert | a desert region of central Australia. |
| ~ sinai desert, sinai | a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt. |
| ~ sonoran desert | a desert in southwestern Arizona. |
| ~ syrian desert | a desert of northern Arabia occupying western Iraq, southern Syria, eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia. |
| ~ taklamakan desert, taklimakan desert | a desert in western China. |
| ~ great indian desert, thar desert | a desert to the east of the Indus River in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan. |
| v. (social) | 2. defect, desert | desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army.; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot" |
| ~ flee, take flight, fly | run away quickly.; "He threw down his gun and fled" |
| ~ dissent, protest, resist | express opposition through action or words.; "dissent to the laws of the country" |
| ~ rat | desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage. |
| v. (motion) | 3. desert | leave behind.; "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period" |
| ~ go forth, leave, go away | go away from a place.; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" |
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