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abandonner

/a.bɑ̃.dɔ.ne/

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verb/a.bɑ̃.dɔ.ne/

to give up; to abandon, forsake; to give oneself (to someone)

Le drap de sa robe s'accrochait au velours de l'habit. Elle renversa son cou blanc, qui se gonflait d'un soupir; et, défaillante, tout en pleurs, avec un long frémissement et se cachant la figure, elle s'abandonna.The cloth of her habit caught against the velvet of his coat. She threw back her white neck, swelling with a sigh, and faltering, in tears, with a long shudder and hiding her face, she gave herself up to him.

Synonyms: laisser tomber

From Middle French, from Old French abandoner, from a ban doner (“give up to banishment”), from Frankish *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną.