(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.

(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.

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 / No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.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.

(law); (obsolete); (uncountable) Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this. / (uncountable) Deduction; subtraction; (countable) an instance of this.

(transitive, intransitive, law, chiefly historical) To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.