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 (finance), interest, Cause of action, claim, Privilege (legal ethics), privilege, Possession (law), possession, civil proceedings, Appeal (law), appeal, or righ ...

, a legal term regarding property **

Child abandonment A child () is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The term may also refer to an unborn human being. In English-speaking countries, the legal definition of ''chi ...

, the extralegal abandonment of children **

Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property In property law, 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 possessi ...

, 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 ''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 ...

'', a 1916 silent short film

Literature

*''Abandon'', a thriller novel by Blake Crouch * ''Abandonment'', a play by Kate Atkinson

Music

Groups

* Abandon (band), 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 Extol album ''

Undeceived ''Undeceived'' is the second LP and third studio release by Norwegian Christian metal band Extol. It was released in 2000 on Solid State Records Tooth & Nail Records is a record label founded by Brandon Ebel in California in November 1993. T ...

'' * "Abandoned", a song from the Kamelot album ''

The Black Halo ''The Black Halo'' is the seventh studio album by 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 story introduced in '' Epica ...

'' * "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 and Company, Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1946 and in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November of the sam ...

'' * "Abandon", a song from the Chariot album ''

Wars and Rumors of Wars ''Wars and Rumors of Wars'' is the third full-length album from the band The Chariot. The album is unique in that, the first 25,000 CD cases were hand stamped, signed and numbered by the band, every member stamping 5,000 each. Similarly, the f ...

'' * "Abandon", a song from the Sylosis album ''

Cycle of Suffering ''Cycle of Suffering'' is the fifth studio album by British heavy metal band Sylosis, released on 7 February 2020 through Nuclear Blast. It is the band's first studio album since their hiatus in 2016, as well as their first to feature Conor M ...

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.'' * "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), the tentative title for an upcoming survival horror game being developed by Blue Box Game Studios

Other uses

* Abandoned footwear *

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. Re ...

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, ...

, 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 repro ...

, in animal behavior, where one parent deserts the other