Clues for the word "ABANDON"
We've had 61 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 225 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on April 26, 2026.
Definition of abandon
- v. t. - To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
- v. t. - To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.
- v. t. - Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
- v. t. - To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.
- v. - Abandonment; relinquishment.
- n. - A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
Referring Clues
- Ditch
- Run out on
- Leave high and dry
- Leave in the lurch
- Desert
- It may be reckless
- Lack of inhibition
- Recklessness
- Give up on
- Strand
- Leave in thelurch
- Forsake
- Wantonness
- Opposite of "retain"
- "Reckless" immoderation
- Devil-may-care attitude
- Leave high and dry ... or, when divided into three parts, what the answers to starred clues are encompassed by
- Wild ___
- Junk
- Leave
- Skip out on
- A group on leave
- Give up altogether
- Might this show you're married to Chuck?
- Give up
- Leave a group playing
- A set of players on leave
- Leave a musical group - no making a comeback
- And the sailor is first on leave
- Best thing to do to the Titanic when thereÕs an orchestra playing
- Leave a bar with a university man
- Total lack of inhibition (often gay?)
- Give up completely
- Leave a bar with university teacher
- Lack of constraint
- A musical group performing in desert
- Careless freedom in desert
- Leave behind
- Leave high & dry
- Renounce
- A veto on academic leave
- Walk out on sailor and no looking back!
- Recklessness gets a group functioning
- Discontinue first attempts to outlaw mafioso
- Ace group performing in ditch
- Evacuate; desert
- Wantonness: desert
- A group of people working in desert
- Article on gang working in desert
- Leave a ring on
- A group working in desert
- Leave teacher to support a veto
- A combo performing in ditch
- Relinquish (hope)
- Leave a group with no backing
- Leave for dead
- Brass concert will have this strand
- 1 1? Without detection, I give up ...
- Leave a group aboard
- Drop a fellow outside bar
- Forsake, desert
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - April 26, 2026
- Daily Quick - April 16, 2026
- Daily American - March 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 20, 2026
- Your Life Choices - March 15, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - March 10, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - February 25, 2026
- Your Life Choices - February 22, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 06, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 12, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - December 24, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 24, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 29, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 03, 2025
- Daily American - October 03, 2025
- New York Times - October 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 30, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 11, 2025
- And in 195 more crossword puzzles...