I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
abandon a baby (= leave your baby somewhere because you do not want it )
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A disturbing number of babies are abandoned by their mothers.
abandon your ideals (= to stop believing in ideals )
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Have these young people abandoned the ideals of the Civil Rights Movement?
abandon your principles (= stop believing in them or trying to act by them )
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It has been said that he abandoned his basic political principles while he was in power.
abandon/give up an attempt
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They had to abandon their attempt to climb the mountain.
abandon/give up your plans
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The city authorities have abandoned their plans to host the Super Bowl.
abandon/give up/drop a pretence (= stop pretending that you are doing something or that something is true )
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Maria had abandoned any pretence of having faith of any kind long ago.
abandon/scrap a plan (= decide not to continue with it )
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The plan was scrapped because it was too expensive.
an abandoned baby (= left somewhere by a mother who does not want it )
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The abandoned baby was found under a hedge.
call off/abandon a search
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They called off the search when it got dark.
leave/abandon sb to their fate (= leave someone in a bad situation )
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The abandoned sailors were left to their fate on the island.
lose/give up/abandon hope (= stop hoping )
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After so long without any word from David, Margaret was starting to lose hope.
reckless abandon (= without caring about the danger )
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He ran into the burning house with reckless abandon .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
never
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All his long life the taste never abandoned him.
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But the radiance and exuberance have never abandoned her.
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Lexandro stared at Valence, and it was as if their minds conjoined for an instant - Valence would never abandon Lexandro.
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In contrast, the tubes of a tubeworm are fixed and the worms never abandon their tubes.
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It is still wonderful - both how far he moved from it and how he never abandoned it at all.
■ NOUN
attempt
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Loretta decided she would have to abandon her attempt to see Veronica for the rest of the day.
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Helen watched my grandmother with a peculiar horror, for my grandmother had abandoned all attempts to make herself presentable.
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Charles realized that he must abandon the attempt to re-assert the Forest rights enjoyed by his medieval predecessors.
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It abandons the attempt to detect a class struggle between exploiters and exploited within advanced capitalism.
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Isabel abandoned the attempt and fought to regain her control instead.
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In reality it was simply a recognition that the government had abandoned any serious attempt to keep monetary growth within targets.
car
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They abandoned their getaway car in Sealand Road.
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Perhaps the engine of an abandoned car will start or a hot-air balloon will materialize.
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Dennis Garvey drowned off the Norfolk coast after abandoning his car in Great Yarmouth.
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Half an hour went by, and then we gave up, reluctantly deciding to abandon the car .
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The two joyriders abandoned the stolen car and ran off.
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Many aging enthusiasts began to abandon sports cars for sport utilities.
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The joyriders abandoned the car nearby.
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There was another abandoned car by the side of the road.
child
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Her parents offered no explanation when police boarded their plane at Chicago airport yesterday to arrest them for abandoning their children .
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The ministry van arrived to collect the abandoned children and the eight boys and girls sent from up the northward coasts.
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Sarah had abandoned her child , she couldn't want her back now.
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Certainly if a father dies or abandons a child , the child will understandably mourn.
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I could feel the sad power of disintegration: husbands gone off, wives abandoned , children baffled.
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Four other abandoned children whose final days had not been as comfortable were buried that same day.
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He would never forgive her for abandoning his child .
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His wife ran away with another man, leaving him and abandoning the children .
decision
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He made the hard decision to abandon the Old World.
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The crisis and the government's decision to abandon its currency controls hit the already fragile banking system hard.
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Ferris took the decision to abandon the aircraft, which crashed at 1205 at Oxborough, Norfolk.
effort
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I shall not abandon the effort to persuade you otherwise.
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The knowledgeable authorities occupy the institutional front row only because others have abandoned the effort .
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Alyssia bared her teeth in a semblance of a smile and then abandoned the effort .
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Democrats are discussing whether to abandon an effort to force a House vote on a resolution condemning the actions of Rep.
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But the president claims he abandoned this effort when told that it would require a presidential decree.
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Only once did I abandon an effort to sample a specific black smoker because I could not safely get into position.
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But opposition proved overwhelming, and city officials, at least temporarily, abandoned their efforts .
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But when a four-day strike at the unit threatened to stall vehicle production, Chrysler agreed to abandon those efforts .
hope
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Instead, at this point Sartre at last abandons all hope of proving History as a totalization without a totalizer.
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To abandon hope should be a one shot deal; a man should not have to do it twice.
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She had long since abandoned that hope .
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Thus, there is still enough separation between the Goldens and the Jerseys to keep Warriors fans from abandoning hope entirely.
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She had abandoned all hope of getting her contract down in black and white!
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At three in the morning, she abandoned any hope of getting to sleep.
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My consolation is in your ecstasy when you abandon hope , and there's nothing to be done.
idea
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This process abandons the old idea that it is necessary to start with a two-carbon feedstock to make the two-carbon acetic acid.
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After discreet soundings, they prudently abandoned the idea , which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence.
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With a sense of relief I abandoned my idea of escape.
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Why have you abandoned the idea ?
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The shadow cabinet decided in April 1912 that it would abandon the referendum idea and return to the full tariff policy.
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Nevertheless, the appearance of Forbes' paper led Darwin to abandon any idea of a separate publication on the topic.
plan
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The Government announced on 19 February that it was abandoning its plan to abolish legal aid in asylum cases.
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So Sherman sighed and abandoned his plan to save his daughter from the elements.
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He gives no money for the care of his son, and Aurora has abandoned plans to pursue child support.
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Why don't we abandon the original plan and go straight to Debenham and Freebody, as we're so close.
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Because of his claimed penury, Mr Hamilton has abandoned plans to contest the libel verdict.
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He now abandons the desperate plan of separating his company into two.
policy
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No clients of Engel and Rudman have abandoned their insurance policies .
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Because the government abandoned any formal incomes policy there was less call for it to maintain close relations with union leaders.
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The party has abandoned policies which made it unelectable in the 1980s.
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We do not intend to abandon this policy .
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At that late stage they abandoned a kick-and-chase policy and began moving the ball.
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It is not clear, he said, whether the review will formally abandon the policy or simply ignore it.
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Yet far from leading him to abandon or modify his policies , opposition incited him to more drastic methods.
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It abandoned incomes policy in the private sector, seeking only to keep pay increases to public employees tightly under control.
principle
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They abandoned the principle for the council tax, so no argument in principle remains.
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Einstein had no intention of abandoning the relativity principle .
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Without abandoning the principle of honour among thieves, let's look at those two points closely.
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And it would largely abandon the principle of progressivity, under which the wealthy pay higher rates than the middle class.
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Now he claims to have abandoned this principle , apparently for no other reason than the pursuit of electoral palatability.
project
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Termination would leave the government with no option but to invite bids for a new concession, or abandon the project .
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I was sure that the raft and the team meant more to him than any idea of abandoning the project .
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Is it worth paying the price or abandoning the project ?
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No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project .
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But rising gas prices in the 1970s forced the corporation to abandon the project .
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Catholic civil servants usually had to abandon any practical political project if they wished to proceed through the ranks.
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The second-level decision required is whether or not to authorize further research or to abandon the project at decision node 2b.
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Much of the renovation work was already done before a previous developer had to abandon the project .
search
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We should not abandon the search for a better way of determining pay for all health service staff.
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By the 1990s, large and institutional investors had abandoned the search for security and demanded instead fat returns on investments.
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After throwing things around in a very haphazard fashion she finally abandoned her search .
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Somewhat bewildered, they abandoned the search and the world heard about yet another maritime tragedy.
ship
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I don't understand why Andropulos and the others didn't abandon ship earlier.
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They enrolled here expecting much and are reluctant to abandon ship , though I have argued with them.
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The crew now wanted to abandon ship , and a few minutes later red flares were seen dead ahead.
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Ribault soon had to abandon the other two ships , the last reminders of a planned Huguenot empire.
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Paul Reichmann was not yet ready to abandon the ship .
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He was discouraged, ready to abandon ship .
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Of course I don't want to abandon ship .
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We make ready to abandon ship !
■ VERB
feel
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But when she left me in the snow, without an explanation, I felt abandoned .
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Suddenly the soldier feels himself abandoned and cast off from all security.
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I don't feel I can abandon Crevecoeur after having worked with hir all this time.
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Coaches often are left to feel abandoned as well, unable to field enough players, even in the smaller leagues.
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One is whether Communists continue to see the president as their leader, or start to feel he has abandoned them.
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When this need is not met, a woman may feel abandoned , lonely, and insecure.
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Fourth, the strange reluctance he felt about abandoning Downes as Suspect Number One.
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He felt not free but abandoned .
force
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Chilperic and Guntram united against him, but Sigibert forced Guntram to abandon the alliances on two occasions.
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However, stricter voting procedures had forced the Democrats to abandon their traditional corruptions.
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He says they should not be forced to abandon their education.
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I had two punctures and was forced to abandon the Nissan.
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Frostbite forced them to abandon the expedition.In 1988 and 1989 they were defeated by freak weather conditions.
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The driving rain saw streams turned into muddy torrents, blocking roads and forcing some motorists to abandon their cars.
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He rattled off the list of headline-worthy cases he was being forced to abandon .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
with gay abandon
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As a raconteur and conversationalist, scattering indiscretions and gossip with gay abandon, he was the acme of unconventionality.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a home for abandoned kittens and puppies
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A new-born baby was found abandoned on the steps of a hospital yesterday.
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All attempts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict have now been abandoned.
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Education leaders do not want to abandon California's commitment to affordable college education.
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My sister abandoned her husband and three children and went to live in Holland.
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Owing to rough weather, the coast guard had been forced to abandon the search.
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Retreating troops were told to abandon their weapons and run as fast as they could towards the beach.
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The 9-year-old boy was abandoned by his alcoholic father.
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The baby was found abandoned outside a local mosque.
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The government has now abandoned its plans to privatize parts of the health service.
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The suspect abandoned the car at Llewellyn and Hamilton Avenues.
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The volcano eruption forced the U.S. to abandon Clark Air Force Base.
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There was increased pressure on North Korea to abandon nuclear arms development.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But if the general were the unclear, we could with reason abandon all science and inquiry.
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I wanted to be accurate about it and in order to be accurate, you have to abandon all restrictions.
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It will offer a fair rates policy that gives 100 percent. rates relief to people whom the present Government have abandoned.
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Knighton is reported to be ready to abandon his takeover bid.
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Long-term research projects within companies will most likely be abandoned altogether or sharply reduced.
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Republicans, meanwhile, are mulling whether to abandon the notion of filing ethics charges against Rep.
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So, intellectually unfashionable but undaunted, the idea of Utopia abandoned the world altogether and was launched into space.
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Sometimes Doogan abandons her classical re-visions altogether and heads into surrealism.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
gay
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As a raconteur and conversationalist, scattering indiscretions and gossip with gay abandon , he was the acme of unconventionality.
reckless
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With reckless abandon , she pressured herself to him, striving to mould herself to his tough maleness.
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Now, with reckless abandon , it promises to meddle with local-government structure.
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They shoot and blow each other up with reckless abandon .
wild
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They fired away with wild abandon , but luckily with little accuracy, and he was able to extricate himself.
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The thought of presenting her naked behind to him so crudely filled her with a wild abandon .
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Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy, who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon !
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Gritting her teeth, she lowered her head, and barged through them, swinging the cable-cutters with wild abandon .
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Then all the bells joined in with wild abandon , ringing joyfully and merrily, welcoming in the New Year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both sides fought with abandon , crimson water swirling round their knees.
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By most people's standards Marilyn Monroe was fairly uninhibited; bathing infrequently, and belching and farting with carefree abandon .
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He scratches and gouges with abandon in the fluent paint.
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It gained and lost with abandon , crushing the Harrisons with embarrassment.
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Rather than joyous abandon , I am full of thought.
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They fired away with wild abandon , but luckily with little accuracy, and he was able to extricate himself.