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.
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.
v.
Abandonment; relinquishment.
n.
A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
a.
Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.
n.
One to whom anything is legally abandoned.
n.
The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
n.
The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
n.
The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
n.
The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.
n.
Careless freedom or ease; abandon.
n.
Anything forfeited or confiscated.
n.
A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.
n.
Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis.