abandoned

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: aban‧doned

Verb

Plain form abandon

Third-person singular abandons

Past tense abandoned

Past participle abandoned

Present participle abandoning

1. The past tense and past participle of abandon.

   After much thought, they abandoned the idea as being too difficult.

Adjective

Positive abandoned

Comparative more abandoned

Superlative most abandoned

1. Something that is abandoned is left behind, forsaken or deserted.

   The abandoned house looked spooky in the moonlight.

   I adopted an abandoned dog.