▶[Verb] If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so. ▶[Verb] If you abandon an activity or piece of work, you stop doing it before it is finished. ▶[Verb] If you abandon an idea or way of thinking, you stop having that idea or thinking in that way. ▶[Noun] If you say that someone does something with abandon, you mean that they behave in a wild, uncontrolled way and do not think or care about how they should behave.
♣ Movie Downsizing (2017)
Paul : If I'm not supposed to be a part of this things, then what am I doing here? Why did I downsize? Why didn't I become a doctor? Why did my wife abandon me?
▶We use would rather or ’d rather to talk about preferring one thing to another. ▶The phrases would sooner and would just as soon mean approximately the same as would rather. ▶Would sooner is more common than would just as soon. ▶Would rather is more common than both of these phrases.
