All abandoner synonyms

noun abandoner

• heretic — a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church.
• insurgent — a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
• deserter — A deserter is someone who leaves their job in the armed forces without permission.
• dissident — a person who dissents.
• defector — A defector is someone who leaves their country, political party, or other group, and joins an opposing country, party, or group.
• traitor — a person who betrays another, a cause, or any trust.
• mutineer — a person who mutinies.
• tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
• outlaw — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
• double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
• turncoat — a person who changes to the opposite party or faction, reverses principles, etc.; renegade.
• fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
• betrayer — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
• turnabout — the act of turning in a different or opposite direction.
• rebel — a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
• iconoclast — a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition.
• recreant — cowardly or craven.
• apostate — An apostate is someone who has abandoned their religious faith, political loyalties, or principles.
• refugee — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
• runaway — a person who runs away; fugitive; deserter.
• snake — any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
• backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
• snake in the grass — a treacherous person, especially one who feigns friendship.
• schismatic — Also, schismatical. of, relating to, or of the nature of schism; guilty of schism.
• forsake — to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert: She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific.