Neglect vs. Abandon — What's the Difference?

In the context of caregiving, neglect is a form of abuse where the perpetrator, who is responsible for caring for someone who is unable to care for themselves, fails to do so. It can be a result of carelessness, indifference, or unwillingness and abuse.Neglect may include the failure to provide sufficient supervision, nourishment, or medical care, or the failure to fulfill other needs for which the victim cannot provide themselves.

To withdraw one's support or help from, especially in spite of duty, allegiance, or responsibility; desert

To pay little or no attention to; fail to heed; disregard

To give up by leaving or ceasing to operate or inhabit, especially as a result of danger or other impending threat

To fail to care for or attend to properly

To surrender one's claim to, right to, or interest in; give up entirely

To fail to do or carry out, as through carelessness or oversight

To cease trying to continue; desist from

The act or an instance of neglecting something

To yield (oneself) completely, as to emotion.

The state or fact of being neglected

Great enthusiasm or lack of restraint

Habitual lack of care

(transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.

(transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.

(transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.

(transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.

(transitive) To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.

(transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.

To subdue; to take control of.

To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.

To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

The act of neglecting.

(transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.

The state of being neglected.

(transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.

Habitual lack of care.

A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences.

Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to allow to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.

(obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.

To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.

To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.

Omission of attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.

Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; - often in a bad sense.

Habitual carelessness; negligence.

To relinquish all claim to; - used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.

Abandonment; relinquishment.

Lack of attention and due care

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

The state of something that has been unused and neglected;

The trait of lacking restraint or control; freedom from inhibition or worry;

Willful lack of care and attention

A feeling of extreme emotional intensity;

The trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern

Forsake, leave behind;

Failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances

Stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas, claims, etc.;

Leave undone or leave out;

Give up with the intent of never claiming again;

Fail to do something; leave something undone;

Leave behind empty; move out of;

Fail to attend to;

Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch;

Give little or no attention to;