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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abandoned myself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a sense of giving up on one's own needs, desires, or identity, often in a metaphorical or emotional context.
Example: "In the chaos of my life, I felt as though I had abandoned myself to the demands of others."
Alternatives: "lost myself" or "forsook my own needs".
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The music was churning, hypnotic, almost psychedelic, and I abandoned myself to it.
"I abandoned myself to the hydra," she proclaims melodramatically at the beginning of this account.
I abandoned myself to the most natural and simple course, as I do always, and gave orders for them to be let in.
I would have abandoned myself too.
It all makes sense now, (although I still occasionally experience panic attacks, they are far less common and don't last as long) I had abandoned myself -- mind and body -- and allowed myself to be consumed with fear.
The resentment I'd been carrying around for my ex-boyfriend finally evaporated like stubborn condensation on the bathroom mirror, and I realized it wasn't he who had abandoned me; I had abandoned myself and my dreams a time long ago in a bid to gain approval and acceptance.
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"To abandon myself to the fantasy of revolution," he says.
Would I never be able to abandon myself to a book?
Abandoning myself to alcohol and flirtation felt like a salvific, if reckless, kind of machismo.
But it's not so much a question of trust that's at issue here; rather a fear of abandoning myself to a pleasure.
I worked my way through all the food on the platter, all the samosas, then finally, completely abandoning myself, licked the platter itself, and even that had a complex nutty flavor, the flakes of crust melting in my mouth.
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