(nautical) On the aft side; in the stern. / (nautical, obsolete) Backwards.

(transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.

(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. / (obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.

(obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. / (biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

(obsolete, Scotland) An abridgment.

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. / A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.

Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. / No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.

simple past tense and past participle of abandon

(transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.

To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate. / To reduce (something) in amount or size. / To lower (something) in price or value.