Translation for 'to abandon sth' from English to French

to abandon sb./sth. [person, hope, attempt]

abandonner qn./qc. [personne, espoir, essai]

to abandon sth.

revenir de qc. [théorie]

se départir de qc. [réserve]

renoncer à qc. [projet, objectif, principes]

planter qc. là [fam.] [voiture]auto

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to abandon the idea of doing sth.

renoncer à faire qc.

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to abandon sb.

trahir qn. [abandonner]

to abandon the field

s'avouer vaincu

to abandon sb. to their fate

abandonner qn. à son (triste) sort

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!

Abandonnez toute espérance, vous qui entrez !

to nest sth. in sth. [to place one part inside another]

emboîter qc. dans qc.

to be dying for sb./sth. to do sth. [idiom]

souhaiter désespérément que qn./qc. fasse qc.

to balance sth. with sth. [e.g. work and family]

concilier qc. avec qc. [p. ex. famille et travail]occup.

to have sth. on sb./sth. [e.g. hopes]

placer qc. dans qn./qc. [espoirs]

to cover sth. with sth. [by stretching it over]

tendre qc. de qc.

to use sth. as an excuse for doing sth.

prétexter de qc. pour faire qc.

to give more importance to sth. than to sth. else

privilégier qc. sur qc. d'autre

to coat sth. with sth. [e.g. with chocolate]

enrober qc. de qc. [fruits, dragées, etc. de chocolat, etc.]cuis.

to use sth. as an excuse to do sth.

s'autoriser de qc. pour faire qc.

to ascribe sth. to sth. [e.g. a value]

assigner qc. à qc. [valeur]

to lock sth. to sth. [e.g. a bicycle]

attacher qc. à qc. [bicyclette]bicyc.

to slather sth. on / onto sth. [coll.] [apply thickly]

enduire qc. de qc.

to give sth. as a reason for doing sth.

arguer qc. pour faire qc.

to provide sb./sth. with fresh supplies of sth. [troops, town]

ravitailler qn./qc. en qc. [vivres]mil.

to lard sth. with sth. [quotations, etc.] [fig.]

truffer qc. de qc. [citations, etc.] [fig.]

to gauge the success of sth. by sth.

mesurer le succès de qc. à qc.

• Additional eruptions on 14 April forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes.
• In 2000, the HyperCard engineering team was reassigned to other tasks after Jobs decided to abandon the product.
• The growing fame of Ely Culbertson, however, prompted Goren to abandon his original career choice to pursue bridge competitions, where he attracted the attention of Milton Work.
• Having previously created Idiom Neutral, the Academy effectively chose to abandon it in favor of Peano's Latino sine flexione.
• The 1903 lease has no fixed expiration date, it can only be ended if the US Navy decided to abandon the area or both countries agreed mutually to end the lease.

• One of the effects of the unification policies was the gradually increasing tendency to eliminate the use of non-German languages in public life, schools and academic settings with the intent of pressuring the non-German population to abandon their national identity in what was called "Germanisation".
• While most of his proposals – "to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort" – are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional-reserve banking still "remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom" although a recent paper by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.
• Returning to the United States, he decided to abandon the daily grind of journalism in favor of literary work, which put fewer demands upon his time and his health.
• This has led to calls to abandon the astronomical unit as a unit of measurement.
• However, the city council voted to abandon the metro project in 2014 due to high costs, and decided to continue expanding the already operating tram system instead.

• Meanwhile, von Salza had to abandon his hope to establish an Order's State in the Burzenland region of Transylvania, which had led to an éclat with King Andrew II of Hungary.
• urged American indians to abandon their traditional hostility towards the United States.
• In 1616, on the orders of Paul V, Bellarmine summoned Galileo, notified him of a forthcoming decree of the Congregation of the Index condemning the Copernican doctrine of the mobility of the Earth and the immobility of the Sun, and ordered him to abandon it.
• The launch of F12 was postponed whilst a project review was carried out, which led to the decision to abandon the Europa design.
• eventually causing Longstreet to abandon his Knoxville Campaign and driving Confederate forces out of Tennessee and opening a route to Atlanta and the heart of the Confederacy.

• s captain ordered her crew to abandon ship after further damage and scuttled "Hiei" in the early evening of 14 November.
• The Federal government had forced San Antonio and Dallas to abandon at-large systems before 1987; however, the court could not show a racist pattern in Austin and upheld the city's at-large system during a 1984 lawsuit.
• In competitions, competitors are costumed as would be appropriate for a white tie affair, with full gowns for the ladies and bow tie and tail coats for the men; though in American Smooth it is now conventional for the men to abandon the tailsuit in favor of shorter tuxedos, vests, and other creative outfits.