abondon/surrender

[hooshdar3]

"All attempts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict have now been-------.
1)accomplished 2)abondoned 3)decayed 4)surrendered

Which choice is correct?

 

[SlickVic9000]

I'm going with 2 on this one. It makes the most sense here.

 

[bhaisahab]

"All attempts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict have now been-------.
1)accomplished 2)abondoned 3)decayed 4)surrender

Which choice is correct?

#2 "abandoned" would seem the most likely.

 

[hooshdar3]

Why is that?

 

[5jj]

As SlickVic said, "It makes the most sense here."

 

[hooshdar3]

As SlickVic said, "It makes the most sense here."

Could you be clearer please?

It just makes no sense to me that "it makes the most sense here"

What does abondon mean that surrender doesn't?

look here:
surrender - definition of surrender by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

surrender in sense 2 has as sunonyms "give up", "abondon", ....

 

[5jj]

Your test sentence requires a past participle.

Note the correct spelling of synonym and abandon.

 

[hooshdar3]

Your test sentence requires a past participle.

Note the correct spelling of synonym and abandon.

oh, yeah!:-(

 

[SoothingDave]

Could you be clearer please?

It just makes no sense to me that "it makes the most sense here"

What does abondon mean that surrender doesn't?

look here:
surrender - definition of surrender by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

surrender in sense 2 has as sunonyms "give up", "abondon", ....

When you surrender you are giving up to some other party, who wins. In this case, there is no winner.

 

[hooshdar3]

Your test sentence requires a past participle.

Note the correct spelling of synonym and abandon.

Sorry, I corrected it.#4 is 'surrendered'

 

[hooshdar3]

When you surrender you are giving up to some other party, who wins. In this case, there is no winner.

What would you say about this example in OALD®:surrender something/somebody The defendant was released to await trial but had to surrender her passport.

and this sense:
2 (formal) to give up something/somebody when you are forced to
SYNONYM relinquish?
surrender - Definition and pronunciation | Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com

 

[5jj]

You don't 'surrender' attempts. You simply stop making them

 

[hooshdar3]

You don't 'surrender' attempts. You simply stop making them

What about abondoning them?

 

[5jj]

What about abondoning them?

What about
1. not raising again something that was answered by SickVic and bhaisahab at the beginning of this thread?
2. spelling 'abandon' correctly?

There is little point in our responding to your questions if you are going to ignore what we say.