abandonné, n.m., -e, n.f., profligate, rake; lewd, wicked, abandoned person.
abandonnement (-do-n-mān), n.m., abandonment, abandoning, forsaking; desertion, the being forsaken; the giving up one’s effects; leaving, quitting; dissoluteness, debauchery.
abandonner, v.a., to abandon, to quit, to leave, to desert, to forsake; to give up, to give over; to leave one at the disposal of; to deliver up; to let loose, let go. Il abandonna le pays; he left the country. — une cause; to give up a cause. — ses prétensions; to give up one’s claims. Mes forces m’abandonnent; my strength is failing me. — une corde; to let go a rope. — la partie; to give up the struggle.
s’abandonner, v.r., to give one’s self up, to addict one’s self, to give way to; to indulge in; to commit one’s self to; to prostitute one’s self; to be easy in one’s manners, to throw off all restraint. S’— à la colère, au plaisir, au hasard; to give way to anger, to indulge in pleasure, to trust to fortune.
☉abannation (-ba-na-), n.f., (jur.) abannition.
☉abaptiste (-ba-tist), adj., (surg.) abaptiston.
abaque, n.m., (arch. antiq.) abacus, plinth, the uppermost part of the capital of a column.
abarticulation, n.f., (anat.) abarticulation, diarthrosis.
abas, n.m., shower (bath), blight (in wheat). V. teigne.
abasourdir, v.a., (fam.) to stun, to dumfound, to astound; to stupefy.