the act of leaving a person, thing or place with no intention of returning 离弃;遗弃;抛弃 their childhood abandonment by their mother 他们童年被母亲遗弃
the act of giving up an idea or stopping an activity with no intention of returning to it 放弃;中止 the government’s abandonment of its new economic policy 政府对新经济政策的放弃