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"abandon" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often forsake (7 letters).
Definitions
Stop maintaining, supporting, or insisting on something.
Word origin
From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (“at, to”) + bandon (“jurisdiction, control”), from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus, bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command”) (whence English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”). See also ban, banal.
Used in a sentence
“[…] he abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice.”
“Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.”
“He was abandoned on the island with no one to help him.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Leave behind”7 letters
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