v
(transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
v
(transitive) To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.
v
(intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
n
The act or fact of absconding, especially from the law.
v
(obsolete) To stand apart from; to leave off; to desist.
n
The act of absquatulating; hasty departure.
v
(transitive, obsolete, rare) To turn away.
v
(transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
n
Obsolete form of avoidance. [The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.]
v
(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about
v
(obsolete, transitive) To separate, part.
n
The act of stopping producing or supplying a product.
v
To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly.
v
(transitive) To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
n
(figuratively) The escape from a difficult situation
n
One who has been released from something.
v
To fail to keep a promise; to renege.
v
Alternative spelling of fordo [(obsolete) To kill, destroy.]
v
To do without, to abandon, to renounce.
v
(archaic, transitive) To give up; give up wholly or completely.
v
(transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
v
(transitive, obsolete) To bewitch, to charm.
v
(obsolete) To give forth
v
(obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
v
(transitive, obsolete) to impinge against
v
(transitive) To relinquish control over.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) to stand aside
v
(transitive, obsolete) to give in to.
v
(intransitive, Ireland, UK, idiomatic) To complain, sulk, chastise.
v
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To give up; abandon; stop.
v
(transitive) To surrender (someone or something)
v
(intransitive, with of) To cede a commitment to or identification with.
v
To allow the expression of (a pent-up emotion, grief, etc.).
v
(idiomatic, humorous) To become old-fashioned.
n
(economics) An ongoing economic trend in which employees have voluntarily resigned from their jobs en masse, beginning in early 2021.
v
(transitive) To put into peril; to place in danger.
v
To take (something) freely, help oneself to
v
(idiomatic) To repair damage to a friendship or relationship after a disagreement or other mishap.
v
(hortative) Indicates a withdrawal or retractment of a previous statement.
adj
(idiomatic) Relieved of a duty, burden, responsibility, or pressure.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish.
v
(obsolete) To swear over again, or in opposition to the oath sworn by another.
v
To let go of; to give up; to relinquish.
v
To intentionally disregard something, allow it to go unnoticed, or change the subject in response to someone's comment; to omit or fail to carry out something; to prematurely terminate or interrupt something.
v
(obsolete) To procrastinate.
v
(archaic, transitive) To divorce.
v
(transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
v
(intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
v
(obsolete) To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose.
v
(dated) To desert one's cause, or change one's loyalties; to commit betrayal.
v
(intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
v
(intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.
v
(US, idiomatic) To admit defeat; indicate submission, such as when wrestling; to ask for mercy.
n
One whose employment has been terminated
v
(transitive) To refuse to admit someone.
n
The practice of forcing employees not promoted in a timely fashion to terminate employment.
adj
Relating to the practice of forcing employees not promoted in a timely fashion to terminate employment.
n
(finance, insurance) Abbreviation of write-off. [(accounting) The cancellation of an item; the amount cancelled or lost]
v
(obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
v
(transitive) To waive (to relinquish, to forego).
n
The act of withholding something.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To forsake; abandon; renounce; deny; refuse.
v
To treat as a write-off, a total loss, especially something damaged beyond economic repair.
n
(law) The termination of an employee's employment in a way that breaches the employment contract or statutory law.
v
To give something against one's will.
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