abandon
ship
As the gunboats closed in, the Denbigh's crew abandoned ship.
A nearby tanker plucked them from the sea less than an hour after they had abandoned ship.
Five students had to abandon ship in the Pacific recently.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Departing
abandon
abandonment
absquatulate
backward
be ready to rollidiom
move
p.o.q.
peel away/off
piss off
pull
pull out
pull something off
push along
sea
track
vacate
vamoose
walk
walk off (somewhere)
walk out