Oneself to despair

Definition

abandon / ǝ'bændǝn / v ၁။ (က) စြန္႔ခြာသည္။ ပယ္ခြာသည္။ ပစ္ထားသည္။ စြန္႔ပစ္သည္။ Abandon ship! ❍ a baby abandoned by its parents, ❍ an abandoned car. (ခ) ပစ္ပယ္သည္။ The country abandoned its political leaders after the war. ၂။ (က) စြန္႔လႊတ္သည္။ စြန္႔သည္။ He urged people who smoked to abandon the habit. ❍ Have they just postponed the scheme or abandoned it altogether? (ခ) ဖ်က္ (သိမ္း) သည္။ The match was abandoned because of bad weather. (ဂ) (ဟန္)မေဆာင္ (ေတာ့)။ The regime has abandoned all/any pretence of democracy. ၃။ ~ oneself to despair (rhet) (စိတ္ အာ႐ံု ခံစားခ်က္ လႊမ္းမိုးမႈတြင္) လြင့္ေမ်ာလိုက္ပါသြားသည္။ He abandoned himself to despair. n [U] (also abandonment ) စိတ္လြတ္လက္လြတ္ [ျဖစ္ေသာ အေျခအေန]။ dance with gay abandon. ❏ abandoned adj အရွက္မရိွေသာ။ လြတ္[ေသာ]။ an abandoned young woman. ❏ abandonment n [U] ၁။ လက္လႊတ္လိုက္ [ျခင္း]။ her abandonment of the idea. ၂။ ပစ္ပယ္လိုက္ျခင္း။ အထီး က်န္ျခင္း။ the fear of abandonment in old age. ၃။ = abandon n

Examples

1. His mother abandoned him when he was five days old.
2. I’m sorry I abandoned you like that.
3. Most of the villagers have abandoned their homes and fled.
4. The coastal settlements were abandoned in the 19th century.
5. The stolen car was abandoned only five miles away.
6. After 20 lessons I finally abandoned my attempt to learn to drive.
7. The game had to be abandoned because of rain.
8. George almost persuaded me to abandon my studies and join him.
9. She abandoned caution and began scrambling down the cliff.
10. [abandon all/any pretence] : By 1978
11. they had abandoned all pretence of democratic principles.
12. Hardy felt that he had been abandoned by all his followers.
13. Despite current problems
14. they have not abandoned their commitment to the peace process.
15. By this time
16. the steady state theory of the universe had been largely abandoned.