Abandon, abandoned, or abandonment may refer to:

Common uses

Abandonment (emotional) Emotional abandonment is a subjective emotional state in which people feel undesired, left behind, insecure, or discarded. People experiencing emotional abandonment may feel at a loss. They may feel like they have been cut off from a crucial so ...

, a subjective emotional state in which people feel undesired, left behind, insecure, or discarded *

Abandonment (legal) In law, abandonment is the relinquishment, giving up or renunciation of an interest, claim, civil proceedings, appeal, privilege, possession, or right, especially with the intent of never again resuming or reasserting it. Such intentional act ...

, a legal term regarding property **

Child abandonment Child abandonment is the practice of relinquishing interests and claims over one's offspring in an illegal way, with the intent of never resuming or reasserting guardianship. The phrase is typically used to describe the physical abandonment of a ...

, the extralegal abandonment of children **

Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property are categories of the common law of property which deals with personal property or chattel which has left the possession of its rightful owner without having directly entered the possession of another person. ...

, legal status of property after abandonment and rediscovery *

Abandonment (mysticism) Abandonment is a term often used by mystic and ascetic writers to signify the first stage of the union of the soul with God by conforming to God's will, for example in the work of Jean Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence': :"You d ...

Art, entertainment, and media

Film

* ''Abandon'' (film), a 2002 film starring Katie Holmes * ''Abandoned'' (1949 film), starring Dennis O'Keefe * ''Abandoned'' (1955 film), the English language title of the Italian war film ''Gli Sbandati'' * ''Abandoned'' (2001 film), a Hungarian film * ''Abandoned'' (2010 film), starring Brittany Murphy * ''Abandoned'' (2015 film), a television movie about the shipwreck of the ''Rose-Noëlle'' in 1989 * ''Abandoned'' (2022 film), starring Emma Roberts * ''The Abandoned'' (1945 film), a 1945 Mexican film * ''The Abandoned'' (2006 film), by Nacho Cerdà * ''The Abandoned'' (2010 film), starring Mira Furlan * ''The Abandoned'' (2015 film), starring Louisa Krause * ''The Abandoned'' (2022 film), starring Janine Chang * ''

The Abandonment ''The Abandonment'' is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Donald MacDonald starring Helene Rosson, Forrest Taylor and Harry von Meter. The feature-length film was produced at Mutual's studios in Santa Barbara, California. It was pa ...

'', a 1916 silent short film

Literature

*''Abandon'', a thriller novel by

Blake Crouch William Blake Crouch (born October 15, 1978) is an American author best known for his '' Wayward Pines Trilogy'', which was adapted into the 2015 television series ''Wayward Pines''. Early life and education Crouch was born near the town of St ...

* ''Abandonment'', a play by

Kate Atkinson Kate Atkinson may refer to: * Kate Atkinson (actress) (born 1972), Australian actress * Kate Atkinson (writer) Kate Atkinson (born 20 December 1951) is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She is known for creating the Jac ...

Music

Groups

Abandon (band) Abandon is an American Christian rock band from San Antonio, Texas. The group had five members: brothers Josh (lead vocals) and Justin Engler (guitar), cousins Stevan (guitar) and Dave Vela (drums), and Bryan Fowler (bass). Abandon signed ...

, an alternative rock band on ForeFront Records *

Los Abandoned Los Abandoned were an American alternative rock band from the Los Angeles, California area. The band's lyrics were in Spanish and English, or a combination of the two known as Spanglish. Their biggest hits were "Panic-oh!," "Van Nuys (es Very N ...

, music group

Albums

* ''Abandon'' (album), a 1998 album by rock band Deep Purple * ''Abandoned'' (album), a 2015 album by hardcore punk band Defeater

Songs

* "Abandoned" (song), a song by Jay Park * "Abandoned", a song from the Kamelot album ''

The Black Halo ''The Black Halo'' is the highly acclaimed, seventh full-length album by the American power metal band Kamelot. It was released on March 15, 2005, through Steamhammer Records. It is a concept album inspired by Goethe's Faust. Continuing the stor ...

'' * "The Abandoned", a song from the Memphis May Fire album ''

The Hollow ''The Hollow'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United States by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1946 and in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November of the same year. The US edition ...

Television

* ''Abandoned'' (TV series), an American reality television series * "Abandoned" (''Lost''), episode 30 of ''Lost'', season 2 * "Abandoned", an episode of the TV series ''Feud'' * "Abandoned", an episode of the TV series ''

Power Rangers S.P.D. ''Power Rangers S.P.D.'' is the thirteenth season of the television series, ''Power Rangers'', and is based on the 28th Super Sentai series ''Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger''. The season shares its title with the Korean dub of ''Dekaranger'' in South ...

'' * "Abandoned", an episode of the TV series ''Smallville'' season 10 * "The Abandoned" (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''), episode 6 of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', season 3

Video games

* ''Abandoned'' (video game), an upcoming survival horror game being developed by Blue Box Game Studios

Other uses

Abandoned footwear Abandoned footwear, such as a lone boot or shoe, has often been noted in out-of-the-way places like ponds or by the side of roads. Sometimes the shoes may even be new and fashionable. There are many hypotheses about why this phenomenon seems to ...

Abandoned pets Abandoned pets are companion animals that are either inadvertently or deliberately abandoned by their owners, by either dumping the animals on the streets, leaving them alone in a vacant property, or relinquishing them at an animal shelter. Anim ...

Abandoned railway An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be ''disused railways'', ''closed railways'', ''former railway lines'', or ''derelict'' railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers ...

Abandoned village An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout history, thousands of villages have been deserted for a variety of causes. Abandonment of villages is often related to epidemic, f ...

, a human habitat that has been abandoned *

Mate abandonment In biology, mating is the pairing of either opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms for the purposes of sexual reproduction. ''Fertilization'' is the fusion of two gametes. ''Copulation'' is the union of the sex organs of two sexually reproduc ...

, in animal behavior, where one parent deserts the other