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Meaning of Abandoning | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
əˈbændənɪŋ

Definitions

An act in which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment, neglect

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Examples

“Their sensuality—[…] —their universal and insatiable lustings, and disgraceful abandonings of their unhappy victims— […] may not be credited by those who have not proof of such crimes.”
“I […] owe the one who depends upon me the gentlest of abandonings, if I leave him.”
“We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins and we cannot afford all these abandonings.”

CEFR level

C2
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