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abandoned

 adjective
     
a‧ban‧doned
1 an abandoned building, car, boat etc has been left by the people who owned or used it:
The car was found abandoned in Bristol.
the demolition of abandoned buildings
2 [only before noun] an abandoned person or animal has been left completely alone by the person that was looking after them
3 literary behaving in a wild and uncontrolled way
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