to waive a right; to abstain (from voting); (sports) to forfeit (a game); to voluntarily withdraw from a match

to abandon ship

to throw away; to discard

sacrificed piece (in chess or Go); abandoned child; (fig.) sth that has been abandoned or sacrificed (an ally, a product, employees etc); (in expressions such as 拋家棄子|抛家弃子[pao1 jia1 qi4 zi3]) to abandon one's child(ren)

to leave this world; to die

to abandon (a child, elderly family member, pet etc); (literary) (of one's parents) to pass away

to quit watching a TV series

(literary) to choose between rejecting and accepting

abandoned baby; to abandon an infant

to give up defending; to yield; to surrender

public execution (old)

to renounce nuclear weapons

to stop using; to abandon; abandoned; deprecated

to abandon; to forsake

to abandon; to give up

to jump bail

to abandon farming and become a businessman (idiom)

to renounce evil and turn to virtue (idiom)

to turn over a new leaf

to renounce the dark and seek the light; to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one

to abrogate an agreement; to break one's oath (idiom)

to throw away like worn out shoes

to give up evil and return to virtue

to toss away like a pair of worn-out shoes (idiom)