Abandoning and Getting

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Getting is an antonym for abandoning.

Nearby Words: abandon, abandoned, abandonment

Getting noun - The act of acquiring something.

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Abandoning is an antonym for getting in topics: act of procuring, act of changing.

Nearby Word: get

However Neven was wounded in the leg fighting it and Thayar ended up abandoning Renning and him after getting spooked by some spectre following him.

Source: Web Original / Ascend OCT
Stan calls him out for abandoning his friend Dudley to getting molested by the bicycle shop man, with Brian mentioning the real Dudley is messed up because of it.

Source: Been There, Shaped History
Which they relatively often get away with, if you consider "despoiling 3/4 of a planet and then abandoning your cult to its fate when the cavalry arrives" to be "getting away with it".

Source: Straw Nihilist aka: Nietzsche Wannabe

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