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▸ adjective:  Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
▸ adjective:  (specifically) Of a ship: abandoned at sea; of a spacecraft: abandoned in outer space.
▸ adjective:  (by extension) Of property: in a poor state due to abandonment or neglect; dilapidated, neglected.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Adrift, lost.
▸ adjective:  (chiefly US) Negligent in performing a duty; careless, deficient, neglectful, unfaithful.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, specifically, law) Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.
▸ noun:  (countable, dated) An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast, a waif.
▸ noun:  (countable, by extension, derogatory) A homeless and/or jobless person; a vagrant; also, a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their hygiene and personal affairs.
▸ noun:  (countable, chiefly US) A person who is negligent in performing a duty.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To abandon or forsake (someone or something).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To neglect a duty.

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