Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility.

synonyms: abandonment, defection.

Roget 624: relinquishment, abandonment; desertion, defection, secession, withdrawal; cave of Adullam^†; nolle prosequi [Lat.].    discontinuance etc. (cessation) 142; renunciation etc. (recantation) 607; abrogation etc. 756; resignation etc. (retirement) 757; desuetude etc. 614; cession etc. (of property) 782.    ... show more

Roget 893: seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness etc. adj.; delitescence^†; rustication, rus in urbe [Lat.]; solitude; solitariness etc. (singleness) 87; isolation; loneliness etc. adj.; estrangement from the world, voluntary exile; aloofness.    cell, hermitage; convent etc. 1000; sanctum sanctorum [Lat.].    depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness etc. (unproductive) 169; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum.    exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut.    inhospitality^†, inhospitableness etc. adj.; dissociability^†; domesticity, Darby and Joan.    recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret^†, anchorite; Simon Stylites^†; troglodyte, Timon of Athens^†, Santon^†, solitaire, ruralist^†, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic^†; wastrel, foundling, wilding^†.    ... show more

Dutch: ontrouw, afvalligheid, desertie, vaandelvlucht
Polish: dezercja, rejterada

The act of giving something up.

synonyms: abandonment, forsaking.

Dutch: desertie, verzaking