abandoner

noun

Definition of abandonernext
as in traitor

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abandoner
  1. traitor
  2. turncoat
  3. dropout
  4. rebel
  5. insurgent
  6. mutineer
  7. quisling
  8. turnabout
Noun
  • Cumming will lead a new group of 21 traitors from across a variety of other reality series.
    Anne Easton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • He is now considered one of America’s worst traitors.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of traitor
Noun
  • For instance, the story of Armand, the accidental turncoat semi-ex-mafia guy played by Max Casella, could easily have come from either of the crime masterpieces Winter worked on.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
  • With a turncoat on the loose among the agents, time is of the essence to root out the loose cannon before they, ahem, fire.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 16 Sep. 2024
Definition of turncoat
Noun
  • The story of a college dropout who becomes his terminally ill grandmother’s caretaker prompted a local viral trend of social media users filming themselves crying after seeing it.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The state has pledged additional support to school dropouts and single-parent families.
    The Week UK, theweek, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of dropout
Noun
  • The rebels have threatened new attacks in response to Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon and its killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
    Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The Israel-Hamas war has intensified other conflicts in the Middle East, including attacks on international shipping lanes by Yemen’s Houthi rebels and between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of rebel
Noun
  • Operating in loose cooperation with Lebanese insurgents, these militias wreaked havoc on Israeli forces and their collaborators.
    Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2024
  • His ascension was part of a wave of insurgent, anti-establishment candidates who sought to push the Republican Party further to the right.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of insurgent
Noun
  • The two who came closest to challenging him—the opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin—are now dead.
    Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2024
  • While Musk was on his honeymoon, Botha and other mutineers met with PayPal’s lead investors to make their case.
    Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 July 2024
Definition of mutineer
Noun
  • Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • And Kilicdaroglu was an easy mark for Erdogan, who has belittled him for years and cast him during the campaign as both a terrorist and a quisling for Western interests — accusations that stuck in the minds of some voters.
    Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
Definition of quisling
Noun
  • In a turnabout this year, the Trump campaign has encouraged early and mail-in voting in 2024 to avoid the same scenario again.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
  • However this next show came to be, the decision validates a long-manifest turnabout, which is that the muse of visionary dressing is now the man.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
Definition of turnabout
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