Abandoning

Verb

1. Present participle of abandonMany have been abandoning their homes due to the violence. progressiveTheir abandoning their homes means no tax revenues for the county. gerundAn abandoning husband can be a precursor to bankruptcy. participial adjective

Full definition of abandoning

Noun

1. An act in which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment, neglect
• Their sensuality—... —their universal and insatiable lustings, and disgraceful abandonings of their unhappy victims— ... may not be credited by those who have not proof of such crimes.
• I allow someone to come to depend upon me, so ...
  owe the one who depends upon me the gentlest of abandonings, if I leave him.
• We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins and we cannot afford all these abandonings.