ABANDON  

DISCARD SOMEONE WHOM ONE SHOULD CARE FOR.
Hypernym
  • DISCARDDISPLACE something so as to VOLUNTARILY CAUSE ONESELF to LACK it.
    • DISPLACECAUSE to MOVE.
      • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
        • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The most general term for discarding something reluctantly, abandoning what one would have liked to keep or continue to do, is qì 棄.

Words

棄  qì MC: khjijH OC: khilsCH 6 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNabandonCH
  • vtoNreflexive.自abandon one's real selfCH
舍  shě MC: syaeX OC: lʰaʔCH 4 Attributions

    Word relations
  • Result: 失/LOSE The dominant general word for to lose is shī 失 (ant. dé 得 "get") which refers to any disappearance of something which belonged to one in any sense, but the emphasis tends to be on the loss being the result of a mistake rather than mere insouciance.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNabstract=捨 abandonCH

Existing SW for

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