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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'abandoned herself' is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is typically used to describe someone who has given up on themselves, or has given up hope in a certain situation. For example, "After feeling overwhelmed by her anxieties, she abandoned herself and ceased to believe in her own worth."
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She abandoned herself to her characters like a method actor.
Like much of Italy, Dalser abandoned herself to him body and soul.
Having lost her much-loved husband in a car accident, Sammar has completely abandoned herself to grief.
Instead she abandoned herself to sulking, lying on her side on the sofa, her hands clasped between her knees.
Coretta Clay, a small woman with the firm-boned features of the world champion's father, abandoned herself to a high, ecstatic laugh at the door of the kitchen.
She seemed for the time to be taking a rest from that laborious and fatiguing function and to have abandoned herself to some mechanical impulse that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility.
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Of abandoning herself to whims and vices: parties and gambling.
To them the notion of a woman's abandoning herself to such passion is almost inconceivable.
She pressed her body to the glass, eyes shut, and stayed for a long moment, nearly collapsed against the cool surface, abandoning herself to it.
She abandons herself to an "egoless, empty, Zen-like state of mind" while recapturing the love for driving she fleetingly enjoyed in her youth.
Sheba engages in a self-destructive affair with a 15-year-old pupil and blissfully abandons herself to the secret tryst until Barbara rumbles them.
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