ABANDON

Abandon

Abandon is a 2002 American thriller film released by Paramount Pictures and Touchstone Pictures. It was written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, starring Katie Holmes as a college student whose boyfriend disappeared two years previously. Despite being set at an American university, much of the movie was filmed in Canada at McGill University's McConnell Hall.

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abandon

Noun

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

Verb

  1. To subdue; to take control of. <ref name=SOED/>
  2. To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. <ref name=SOED/>
  3. To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. <ref name=SOED/>
  4. To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. <ref name=SOED/>
    Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
  5. To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. <ref name=SOED/>
  6. To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. <ref name=SOED/>
  7. To surrender to the insurer the insured item, so as to claim a total loss.

Adverb

  1. Freely; entirely.


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