abandoned
/əˈbæn.dənd/ adjective B2- Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
- No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. · abandoned building· abandoned property
- Free from constraint; uninhibited.
- No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
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Sherlock Holmes was a past-master in the art of putting a humble witness at his ease, and very soon, in the privacy of Godfrey Staunton’s abandoned room, he had extracted all that the porter had to tell.
I will say and do nothing until I am convinced that he has quite abandoned me, and then——”
They ask my name, I cannot give it, since my parents abandoned me.
Then a strange reaction took place; he who had just abandoned 5,000,000 endeavored to save the 50,000 francs he had left, and sooner than give them up he resolved to enter again upon a life of privation—he was deluded by the hopefulness that is a premonition of madness.
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