Abandon and Despair

Abandon

Abandon verb - To give (oneself) over to something especially unrestrainedly.

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Despair and abandon are semantically related In some cases you can use "Despair" instead a verb "Abandon".

Despair verb - To lose all hope or confidence.

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Abandon and despair are semantically related in give up hope topic. Sometimes you can use "Abandon" instead a verb "Despair".

emotional	emotional abandon	emotional despair
equal	equal abandon	equal despair
perfect	perfect abandon	perfect despair
complete	complete abandon	complete despair
Other adjectives: utter, great, absolute, suicidal.

Twilight does this after her friends abandon her at the Canterlot Wedding rehearsal but Chrysalis unlike in canon, just leaves Twilight instead of sending her to the caves, seeing as how Twilight was already in the depths of despair.

Source: Despair Event Horizon / Fan Works
And the moment they give in to despair, the blue power rings abandon them to seek out more worthy wielders.

Source: Despair Event Horizon / Comic Books
Despite building up a team of 7 of the 8 Avatar users and a bunch of others, Yata is promptly fired by CC Corp, forcing him to abandon the team in despair.

Source: Breaking the Fellowship

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