0 present participle of abandon --
2 to stop doing an activity before you have finished it: --
The party has now abandoned its policy of unilateral disarmament.
The game was abandoned at half-time because of the poor weather conditions.
3 to allow yourself to be controlled completely by a feeling or way of living: --
He abandoned himself to his emotions.
We think the anomalies he catalogues can be accounted for without abandoning this foundational principle of deterministic behavioral science.
In this way does the abandoning of good works.
The third strategy consists of abandoning the idea that cognition exclusively involves symbol manipulation.
And the hearer is expected to recognize that the contradiction should be resolved by abandoning (36b).
His contribution to the understanding of prosocial behavior would also benefit from abandoning the traditional (and excessively restrictive) definition of altruism.
In contrast, cultural relativism - the uncritical acceptance of any culture's views as valid within that culture - risks abandoning the substantive values of one's own culture.
The king has been tricked, abandoning his empire for the empty pleasures of grand opera.
My analysis would suggest that, at this point, the physicians and hospitals were unfortunately stuck, since they could not have justified abandoning either patient.
