"abandon words" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to stop using certain words or phrases. Example: She decided to abandon words like "very" and "really" from her vocabulary, and instead found stronger and more descriptive alternatives.
The paintings also employ a device that Hockney would quickly abandon: words, which appear like coded messages.
Often throughout the album, Pierce will effectively abandon words for strings of wordless scat passages that serve to throw the focus back on to the melodic hooks – which, fortunately, are the band's most agreeable aspect.
In this regard, consider Hume's assertion that, if we are unsure about the meaning of a word, "we need but enquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived?" (Hume [1748] 1975, 22), and his recommendation that we abandon words that lack such derivations.
In the constant attempt to be cool and stand out, DJs incorporate numbers with letter, mix random words together or simply abandon words altogether, mostly just leading to confusion.
What's left of that piece that's still sitting in my documents is over five thousand abandoned words.
So perhaps the time has come to move beyond the word-focus of Rabbinic Judaism - not abandoning words but reintegrating Wheat and Word, the Food that comes into our mouths and the words of Torah that come out of our mouths.
The Americans, Cadillac and Lincoln, have abandoned word names for letters.
Passion oratorio texts (dealing with the death of Jesus) of this period often abandon biblical words for a mixture of rhymed paraphrase and lyrical commentary of a more or less sentimental nature.
A few years later, Ross wrote a staff memo: "I earnestly recommend that we abandon the word understandably, which has been a fad word with us for a good many months and creeps into all sorts of pieces.
Of course, in so doing, it doesn't abandon the word altogether.
It's time for professional clowns to abandon the word "clown".
