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Part of Speech: imperfect, past participle
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In consequence of these reasons the children were told that they could stay only one night in the city, after all, except those who desired to make it their permanent home, and abandoning their wild scheme, promise to become good citizens. - "Ten Boys from History", Kate Dickinson Sweetser.
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Indeed, his stakes were too high to allow of his abandoning them. - "The Bertrams", Anthony Trollope.
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If the hard times continue, and it becomes a sheer impossibility for me to employ you on these terms without abandoning the plant altogether, I will approach you again, and trust that you will support me in any measures I am forced to take. - "The Portion of Labor", Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.