my |
1. det. First-person singular possessive determiner. See. | |
2. det. Belonging to me. | |
I can't find my book. | |
3. det. Associated with me. | |
My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable. | |
Don't you know my name? | |
I recognised him because he had attended my school. | |
4. det. Related to me. | |
My parents won't let me go out tonight. | |
5. det. In the possession of me. | |
I have to take my books back to the library soon. | |
6. interj. Used to express surprise, shock or amazement. | |
My, what big teeth you have! | |
abandoned |
1. adj. Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. | |
2. adj. No longer maintained by its former owners, residents or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. | |
3. adj. Free from constraint; uninhibited. | |
4. adj. (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it. | |
5. v. simple past tense and past participle of abandon | |
abandon |
1. v. To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. | |
2. v. To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. | |
3. v. To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. | |
Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing. | |
4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. | |
5. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. | |
6. v. To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. | |
7. v. To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss. | |
8. n. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences.(R:CDOE, page=2). | |
9. n. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment. | |
heart |
1. n. (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. | |
2. n. Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general. | |
The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart. | |
3. n. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality. | |
a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart | |
4. n. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit. | |
5. n. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. | |
6. n. (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address. | |
Listen, dear heart, we must go now. | |
7. n. Personality, disposition. | |
a cold heart | |
8. n. (figurative) A wight or being. | |
9. n. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes (unsupported, <3). | |
10. n. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols. | |
11. n. (cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card. | |
12. n. The centre, essence, or core. | |
The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest. | |
Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life. | |
13. v. (transitive, humorous, informal, mostly, internet slang) To be fond of. (Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.) | |
14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to be devoted. | |
15. v. (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater. | |
16. v. (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage. | |