abandoning

• abandonment
• abjuring
• abolishing
• abolition
• aborting
• abrogating
• abrogation
• annulling
• annulment
• basking
• breaking off
• breaking up
• calling
• calling off
• canceling
• cancelling
• ceasing
• closing
• concluding
• countermanding
• crying off
• cutting off
• deletion
• delivering
• deserting
• discarding
• discontinuing
• disowning
• disregarding
• dissolution
• dissolving
• distancing
• ditching
• dropping
• dumping
• elimination
• ending
• escaping
• expiring
• finishing
• flinging
• forgetting
• forsaking
• giving up
• halting
• handing over
• hanging it up
• holding back
• ignoring
• indulging
• interrupting
• invalidating
• invalidation
• jettisoning
• junking
• knocking off
• leaving
• leaving off
• luxuriating
• marooning
• neglecting
• nullification
• nullifying
• overdoing
• overindulging
• overruling
• pausing
• quashing
• quitting
• recall
• recalling
• recanting
• rejecting
• relinquishing
• renouncing
• repeal
• repealing
• repudiating
• repudiation
• rescinding
• retirement
• retracting
• retraction
• reveling
• revelling
• reversal
• reversing
• revocation
• revoking
• rolling
• rolling back
• sacrificing
• scrapping
• scrubbing
• shedding
• shutting off
• stopping
• stranding
• surrendering
• suspending
• taking back
• tapering off
• terminating
• throwing away
• throwing out
• throwing up
• undoing
• vacating
• voiding
• walking away from
• walking out on
• wallowing
• winding up
• withdrawing
• wrapping up
• writing off
• yielding

• allowance
• approval
• arrangement
• beginning
• carrying on
• checking
• commencing
• confirmation
• continuing
• denying
• enactment
• engaging
• eschewing
• establishment
• forbearing
• foregoing
• forgoing
• going
• hanging in
• hanging on
• harboring
• having
• holding
• holding on
• inhibiting
• initiating
• keeping
• keeping up
• maintaining
• owning
• permission
• persevering
• persisting
• pledging
• possessing
• preserving
• promising
• reclaiming
• redeeming
• renewing
• reopening
• rescuing
• reserving
• restarting
• restraining
• resuming
• retaining
• running on
• saving
• starting
• staying
• taking on
• taking up
• undertaking
• validation
• withholding

• verb
  1. To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
  2. To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
  3. To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.
  4. To subdue; to take control of.
  5. To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
  6. To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
  7. To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
• noun
  1. An act in which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment, neglect.

• The ship was sinking rapidly, and the crew faced the difficult decision of abandoning it.
• Abandoning their original plan, they decided to take a different route through the dense forest.
• The hurricane warnings led to a mass evacuation, with residents quickly abandoning their homes.
• The explorer faced the harsh reality of abandoning some equipment to lighten the load and continue the journey.
• In the face of financial difficulties, the company considered abandoning its ambitious expansion project.

calling off

jettisoning

cancelling

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