Word "ABANDON" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
Synonyms:
wildness

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
leave behind empty; move out of
Synonyms:
empty, vacate

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
Synonyms:
give up
Examples:
He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage

Crossword Clues for ABANDON

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Clue Source Date
Forsake, desert (7) Mirror Classic 23 Aug 2025
Leave a music group playing (7)
Contractor perhaps also on leave
Hell's leading God is name to forsake The Times Mephisto 13 Jul 2025
Uninhibitedness in a strip club? Not half
Forsake (7) Mirror Classic 17 Jun 2025
Leave in the lurch (7) The Guardian Quick 07 Jun 2025
Leave a bar with a university man (7)
One must leave a group of musicians to one side (7)
Drop requirement for live music gig?
Quit playing with a group (7)
Leave a rock group with no backing
Leave while an orchestra is performing (7)
A strip of colour close to maroon, perhaps
Baraats would have this in desert? (7)
Lack of restraint with an orchestra playing? (7)
Leave a university man under a prohibition (7)
First two characters and first officer beginning to negotiate with carelessness (7)
Leave a group working The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Apr 2025
Leave Austrian capital and outlaw half of donors (7)
Desert or stop supporting
Desert The Sun Two Speed 02 Apr 2025
Recklessness in musicians playing The Sun Two Speed 02 Apr 2025
Coming together for sake of Chuck
And no sailor will go out and desert us (7)
Desert players performing (7)
Desert Mirror Tea Time 18 Mar 2025
Complete lack of inhibition (7)
A stripe lit up, maroon (7)
Desert, e.g. a ship The Telegraph Quick 14 Mar 2025
Oasis perhaps with boundless pond by area in desert The Times Cryptic 08 Mar 2025
Forsake reckless behaviour The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Feb 2025
Leave, forsake
Leave a group of musicians playing (7)
Leave a group of musicians in performance (7)
Forsake Mirror Classic 12 Jan 2025
Walk out on salsa band onstage for using a sample (7)
Give up, desert Mirror Tea Time 24 Dec 2024
Leave a belt on (7)
Leave behind part of crab and onion (7)
A musical group on the Strand (7)
Give up, ditch (7)
Forsake careless freedom (7)
Desert a professor embracing prohibition The Times Quick Cryptic 06 Nov 2024
Leave because a musk: group appeared, I heard (7)
German will leave the ragand-bone man high and dry (7)
Both naked, baby and nana slip into ditch
Give up altogether Mirror Classic 18 Oct 2024
Reckless _
A group about to leave (7)
Leave a group aboard
Leave a musical group and have no comeback
Leave behind band on a journey
Leave behind Puzzler Backwords 08 Sep 2024
Leave a fellow under a prohibition (7)
A group of musicians performing in desert The Times Quick Cryptic 29 Aug 2024
Jack and Donna prepared to leave (7)
Forsake The Sun Two Speed 14 Aug 2024
Sailor with old knight in desert The Sun Two Speed 14 Aug 2024
A layer of ore close to desert The Times Sunday Cryptic 04 Aug 2024
Leave a musical group performing (7) The Times Quick Cryptic 29 Jul 2024
Give up, desert Mirror Tea Time 28 Jul 2024
Leave them in the lurch with refusal to give genetic material to graduate, on reflection
What a concert venue might have to give up
Stop supporting a group with no backing The Times Cryptic 08 Jul 2024
Leave an orchestra with no backing (7)
Leave high %26 dry
Leave a group with no backing
Dictionary's early "ditch" Newsday 16 Jun 2024
A band on strand? (7)
Leave a strip touching (7)
Leave an orchestra playing (7)
Leave high and dry Universal 05 Jun 2024
What fourth finger of married person's hand has to leave (7)
Leave, desert (7)
Give up completely (7) Puzzler 24 May 2024
Desert, forsake The Times Concise 20 May 2024
Leave a musical group with no backing
Leave a gang with no comeback (7)
Freedom from inhibitions (7)
Leave in the lurch Family Time 28 Apr 2024
Leave a flat strip in position (7)
One has to restrict professor's leave (7)
With this, evidence of engagement seen in desert?
Reckless freedom of manner
Group playing in desert The Sun Two Speed 31 Mar 2024
Forsake The Sun Two Speed 31 Mar 2024
Give up altogether Mirror Classic 29 Mar 2024
And the sailor goes first to get on leave
Leave an orchestra performing (7)
Give up The Telegraph Quick 22 Mar 2024
A company on leave (7)
A fellow arresting outlaw in desert
Leave for dead (7)
Desert, forsake utterly (7)
Bail out a working group? Just the other way around! (7)
Uninhibitedness when musicians are playing (7)
Give up unrestrained freedom of action (7)
A legal prohibition on university teacher showing freedom from inhibitions (7)
Left a group behind when it was still playing (7)
Forsake Mirror Classic 19 Jan 2024
Leave high and dry USA Today 18 Jan 2024
Forsake The Sun Two Speed 07 Jan 2024
Musicians performing in desert The Sun Two Speed 07 Jan 2024
___ ship, captain's warning (7) Puzzler 02 Jan 2024
Leave cab, and one's caught (7) Puzzler Cryptic 23 Dec 2023
Get rid of a professor holding boycott
Leave a strip of rubber round (7)
Give up completely Puzzler Backwords 27 Nov 2023
Drop a girdle over (7)
Drop a girdle over The Guardian Cryptic 23 Nov 2023
Forsake The Sun Two Speed 13 Nov 2023
Group performing in desert The Sun Two Speed 13 Nov 2023
Give up completely (7) Puzzler 05 Nov 2023
Seaman with forward letting go The Times Cryptic 03 Nov 2023
Leave The Telegraph Quick 08 Oct 2023
Leave a Spanish gentleman outside bar The Times Cryptic 04 Jul 2023
Donna dancing around graduate in desert The Times Cryptic 19 Jun 2023
Desert The Telegraph Quick 08 Jun 2023
Leave what one wearing 24 has? The Telegraph Cryptic 04 May 2023
Desert The Guardian Speedy 19 Feb 2023
Cast aside Newsday 27 Jan 2023
Wildness The Guardian Quick 28 Dec 2022
Drop first-class group game The Guardian Cryptic 31 Oct 2022
Give up; desert The Times Concise 22 Aug 2022
Leave a musical group, never to return? The Times Cryptic 27 Jun 2022
Desert The Telegraph Quick 12 May 2022
A group working in desert The Times Cryptic 23 Mar 2022
Leave high and dry USA Today 16 Feb 2022
Desert Thomas Joseph 04 Oct 2021
Leave high and dry Newsday 19 Sep 2021
Scrap with a Mafia boss outside bar
Leave a group while playing
Leave high and dry Thomas Joseph 16 Aug 2021
Leave a lecturer defending prohibition The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Aug 2021
Leave a group performing The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Aug 2021
Run out on Premier Sunday 04 Jul 2021
Leave a ring on
Leave or desert The Telegraph Quick 13 Jun 2021
A musical group performing in dump
Forsake The Sun Two Speed 16 May 2021
Group playing in desert The Sun Two Speed 16 May 2021
Ditch USA Today 06 May 2021
A group of people working without restraint
Musicians playing in Strand The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Apr 2021
Zeppelin possibly playing, showing wildness The Telegraph Toughie 22 Apr 2021
Desert or give up The Telegraph Quick 18 Apr 2021
A group working in desert
Wildness in musicians performing? The Sun Two Speed 18 Mar 2021
A place in Ireland to leave behind Irish Times Crosaire 30 Jan 2021
A group performing ‘Surrender‘
Forsake The Telegraph Quick 23 Jan 2021
Leave in the lurch New York Times 14 Dec 2020
Leave a Mafia boss outside bar
Adult group working in desert The Telegraph Toughie 08 Dec 2020
Recklessness in musicians playing The Sun Two Speed 25 Oct 2020
Recklessness with live music?
Desert; give up The Times Concise 22 Sep 2020
Group performing in desert The Sun Two Speed 07 Sep 2020
Forsake, leave behind Irish Times Simplex 13 Aug 2020
Musicians playing in Strand The Sun Two Speed 07 Aug 2020
Desert The Telegraph Quick 20 Jul 2020
Leave behind The Telegraph Quick 19 Jul 2020
Leave a bar, accompanied by university teacher The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Jul 2020
Lack of restraint shown by a group performing The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Jun 2020
Musicians performing in desert The Sun Two Speed 28 May 2020
Leave high and dry
A team on leave
Give up live music?
Leave behind Premier Sunday 15 Mar 2020
Give up completely The Times Concise 12 Mar 2020
Wildness in a set of musicians performing? The Sun Two Speed 23 Dec 2019
Leave high and dry The Washington Post 16 Dec 2019
Leave high and dry LA Times Daily 16 Dec 2019
A bishop with touching lack of restraint
Leave behind
Strand Thomas Joseph 15 Jul 2019
Dump with an ensemble playing The Sun Two Speed 30 Jun 2019
Lack of restraint The Telegraph Quick 15 Jun 2019
Jack in crew working under ace The Telegraph Cryptic 16 May 2019
Stop a squad playing
Leave a ring about The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Apr 2019
Leave, return, capture a gangster
Drop a fellow outside bar
A group playing in desert The Sun Two Speed 30 Sep 2018
Gang ahead after a scrap
. One musical group's on leave
Walk out on The Telegraph Quick 21 Aug 2018
Gang ahead after a scrap
Brass concert will have this strand
Leave a group of players performing The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Jun 2018
Lack of restraint in scrap
Leave behind New York Times 08 Apr 2018
Turned up collar, punching a teacher in scrap
Desert, leave The Telegraph Quick 25 Mar 2018
Lack of restraint in scrap
Give up; leave behind The Times Concise 01 Mar 2018
A group functioning in desert The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Feb 2018
Leave (behind) The Telegraph Quick 04 Feb 2018
Leave behind
Leave behind The Times Concise 01 Dec 2017
Leave The Telegraph Quick 26 Nov 2017
Oasis perhaps close to desert?
Walk out on sailor and no looking back!
Give up; desert The Times Concise 13 Oct 2017
A group playing in desert The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Sep 2017
It may be reckless LA Times Daily 21 Sep 2017
It may be reckless The Washington Post 21 Sep 2017
Leave a group playing
Give up completely on a group at the front
Leave high and dry ... or, when divided into three parts, what the answers to starred clues are encompassed by The Washington Post 02 May 2017
Leave high and dry ... or, when divided into three parts, what the answers to starred clues are encompassed by LA Times Daily 02 May 2017
. . . and the sailor is first on leave
Devil-may-care attitude Newsday 15 Apr 2017
A combo performing in ditch
Lack of inhibition in a group of musicians performing The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Feb 2017
19 A restriction on dress must go
Might this show you're married to Chuck?
It may be reckless
Leave high and dry ... or, when divided into three parts, what the answers to starred clues are encompassed by
Leave high and dry Universal 07 Sep 2016
Desert, strand The Telegraph Quick 05 Sep 2016
Leave teacher to support a veto
Wantonness: desert The Guardian Speedy 17 Jul 2016
Leave teacher to support a veto
Leave with music playing The Telegraph Cryptic 16 May 2016
''Reckless'' immoderation Newsday 24 Apr 2016
Leader of action group working for freedom The Telegraph Toughie 22 Apr 2016
A group of musicians on leave The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Apr 2016
Give up / freedom from inhibition
Opposite of ''retain'' Newsday 12 Mar 2016
Leave high and dry
Desert The Sun Two Speed 04 Dec 2015
A group on leave The Sun Two Speed 04 Dec 2015
A prohibition put on leave The Times Cryptic 17 Jun 2015
And the sailor is first on leave
Desert LA Times Daily 02 May 2015
Wantonness wearing a ring? The Telegraph Toughie 30 Apr 2015
Leave high and dry USA Today 01 Apr 2015
Lack of inhibition in desert
A group on leave
Leave high and dry
Desert
Leave a musical group — no making a comeback
Desert
Ace group performing in ditch
Leave a group playing
A group working in desert
Desert Rat returning to a North Dakota 9 after vacation
Ditch
It may be reckless
Leave in the lurch
Ditch
Leave high and dry
Strand
Leave high and dry
Recklessness
Leave high and dry
Leave in the lurch
Run out on
Leave in the lurch
Leave high and dry
Lack of inhibition
Lack of inhibition
Desert
Desert
Run out on
Lack of restraint
Forsake
Ditch
Leave in the lurch
Run out on
Forsake
Leave in the lurch
Wantonness
Desert
Leave completely
Walk out on
Run out on
Run out on
Lack of restraint
Desert
Ditch
Give up
Desert
Strand
Forsake
Wild _____
Dash.
Dump
Freedom
Forsake.
Leave in the lurch.
Freedom from constraint.
Unrestrained freedom of activity.
Lack of restraint.
Desert.
Letting oneself go.
Forsake utterly.
Carefree ease.
Unrestrained freedom.
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