abandon | (noun) the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry | Synonyms: unconstraint, wantonness |
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(noun) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity | Synonyms: wildness |
(verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: desert, desolate, forsake |
(verb) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims | Synonyms: give up |
(verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: empty, vacate |
(verb) forsake, leave behind | - |
(verb) give up with the intent of never claiming again | Synonyms: give up |
abandoned | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: derelict, deserted |
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(adjective) unrestrained and uninhibited | - |
abandonment | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: defection, desertion |
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(noun) the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away | - |
(noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: desertion, forsaking |
cabana | (noun) a small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool | - |
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charabanc | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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contraband | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, smuggled |
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(noun) goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law | - |
contrabandist | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: moon-curser, moon curser, runner, smuggler |
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fleabane | (noun) hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas | Synonyms: feabane mullet, Pulicaria dysenterica |
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(noun) any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas | - |
(noun) common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron | Synonyms: Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis, horseweed |
guanabana | (noun) large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples | Synonyms: soursop |
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habanera | (noun) a Cuban dance in duple time | - |
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(noun) music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera | - |
saraband | (noun) a stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries; in slow time | - |
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(noun) music composed for dancing the saraband | - |