• to fink out on sy, to turn sy adrift
• have the heels of another ship
• to betray, to scuttle away, to scuttle off
• to race past a competitor
• to cut out superfluous details
• abandonment, betrayal, dereliction, desertion, discarding, doing-away, giving up, jilting, leaving, leaving off, omission, outdistancing, overtaking, quitting, relinquishment, renouncing, surrender
• abandoned, derelict, deserted, desolate, forsaken, lone, lonely, lonesome, lorn, recluse, sequestered
• desolate, forlorn, friendless, lone, lonely, neglected, recluse, secluded, solitary
• desolation, loneliness, neglect