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relinquish

verb

1 relinquish

Part with a possession or right:
— I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest.

synonyms: free, give up, release, resign.

Roget 782: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, ... show more

Dutch: laten

2 relinquish

Do without or cease to hold or adhere to:
— Relinquish the old ideas.

synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, waive.

Dutch: passen

3 relinquish

Turn away from; give up.

synonyms: foreswear, quit, renounce.

Roget 624: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, ... show more

Dutch: opgeven, afrekenen, afzweren

4 relinquish

Release, as from one's grip:
— Relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall.

synonyms: let go, let go of, release.

Dutch: loslaten, lossen


Moby thesaurus: abandon, abdicate, abjure, abnegate, abort, acknowledge defeat, be pensioned, be superannuated, beg a truce, belay, cancel, capitulate, cast, cease, cede, come off, come to terms, cry pax, cry quits, cut it out ... show more.

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