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Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands..

Defection :: Defection (n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding..

Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc..

Betray :: Betray (v. t.) To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon..

Apostasy :: Apostasy (n.) An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity..

Carcass :: Carcass (n.) The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing..

Derelict :: Derelict (n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea..

Resign :: Resign (v. t.) To relinquish; to abandon.

Relinquish :: Relinquish (v. t.) To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit..

Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against..

Unchristianize :: Unchristianize (v. t.) To turn from the Christian faith; to cause to abandon the belief and profession of Christianity.

Abjure :: Abjure (v. t.) To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors..

Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate..

Dereliction :: Dereliction (n.) A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment.

Destitute :: Destitute (v. t.) To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.

Profligateness :: Profligateness (n.) The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.

Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.

Desert :: Desert (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond..

Abandoner :: Abandoner (n.) One who abandons.

Waive :: Waive (v. t.) To desert; to abandon.

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