abandoning

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of abandon

   “Many have been abandoning their homes due to the violence. (progressive)”

   “Their abandoning their homes means no tax revenues for the county. (gerund)”

   “An abandoning husband can be a precursor to bankruptcy. (participial adjective)”

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:abandoning.”

noun

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

   “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.”