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abandon to

vb. (context literary transitive English) To feel an emotion so strongly that you do not think about anything else. To have an feeling so strongly that you let it control you completely:

Usage examples of "abandon to".

He waltzed her with wild abandon to the ballroom doors and carried her with him down the stairs.

I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the greatness of the world, all that which was mine and yours, which was made by us and is still ours by right—.

I feel quite a concern for the ladies, sir, and more especially for the stores we abandon to the underwriters.

The passive gods behold the Greeks defile Their temples, and abandon to the spoil Their own abodes: we, feeble few, conspire To save a sinking town, involv'd in fire.

Soon after the reign of Augustus, they obliged the Dacians, who subsisted by fishing on the banks of the River Teyss or Tibiscus, to retire into the hilly country, and to abandon to the victorious Sarmatians the fertile plains of the Upper Hungary, which are bounded by the course of the Danube and the semicircular enclosure of the Carpathian Mountains.