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, legal status of property after abandonment and rediscovery * Abandonment (mysticism)

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'', 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

Music

Groups

* Abandon (band), an alternative rock band on ForeFront Records * Los Abandoned, 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 Abandoned", a song from the Memphis May Fire album '' The Hollow''

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 pets * Abandoned railway *

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, ...

, 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