to relinquish
62
7.2
- verb
- /rɪˈlɪŋkwɪʃ/
- Formal
- Please relinquish your claim to the property so it can be sold.
- relinquish control
- relinquish power
- relinquish authority
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Watch on YouTubeWe women are taught to relinquish our inner voice.
- We women are taught to relinquish our inner voice.
- I think over the last decade or so, men have started to relinquish their masculinity.
- They asked me to relinquish my jacket.
- But for many, they'll need to relinquish control.
- An access to the world of faith that did not require me to relinquish access to my faith in the world.
- I have had, I've had to learn as time has gone, gone on, as the business has grown, I have to relinquish control.
- Once you start this happened to the truth of life, you also can relinquish your need to discount other people's reality.
- Now the question they left for you, not knowing it was you was what is the last belief you would relinquish?
- It's it's really very hard to have to relinquish control to a machine and then take over when needed.
- Since George Washington, despite all the bad things he did, one of the big things he did is he relinquished power.
- We don't have to impress anyone and we don't need to relinquish an iota of our faith to coexist with anyone.
- So getting them to doubt themselves, relinquish their own judgement in favour of the narcissist's story that's been spun.
Examples
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I'd like you to voluntarily relinquish your position as foreman and let me take over, okay?
Fiction book (1996) -
Parents were persuaded to relinquish their children by arguments that new medical treatments promised a cure.
Academic text (2017) -
Like these people will not relinquish their power.
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I need you to relinquish your weapons.
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We women are taught to relinquish our inner voice.
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As you see, your government has instructed you to relinquish the patient and all relevant files to our custody.
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He has agreed to relinquish the property into your care.
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The mining companies are still reluctant to relinquish their tight control over worker housing.
Academic text (1992) -
They asked me to relinquish my jacket.
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I think over the last decade or so, men have started to relinquish their masculinity.
Synonyms
∞
1.4
To stop holding something or someone so they are free
∞
2.3
To hand a job or control you have to someone else
∞
1.0
To stop doing a habit or activity like smoking
452
4.4
To stop fighting and give control or things to someone else, often when forced
414
3.3
To give a person or thing to the police
391
1.9
To stop holding something so it is not in your hand
380
2.8
Give something to someone because you have to
107
6.6
Choose not to use a right or to charge a fee
81
6.9
To leave someone who needs your help
74
4.3
To stop resisting under pressure or force
70
6.3
To give up a right, belief, job, or position officially
47
4.1
To give something you value to someone else, often reluctantly
35
8.2
To officially give control, ownership or rights to someone else
32
6.3
To choose not to have or do something
30
6.3
Decide not to have or do something you want
22
8.4
To stop fighting back and accept defeat or demands
22
8.0
To give up a position of power, for example a king or queen
21
5.5
To give something to another person or group against your will
18
4.8
Give up rights or property by agreeing to it in writing
6
3.7
Give up a right or title to something
5
2.6
To give up a right, claim, or ownership of something
2
7.4
Give something to another person because you are forced to do so
1
9.9
To publicly promise to give up a belief, habit, or claim
1
9.9
To withdraw from a promise or agreement, often officially under pressure
1
9.9
To officially give up power, rights, or a position
Antonyms
How Complete
452
4.4
- Formal
70
6.3
- Formal
62
7.2
∞
1.2
∞
1.4
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word relinquish comes from the Latin relinquere, from re- 'back' and linquere 'to leave', so it originally meant 'to leave behind'. That's why to relinquish something now means to give it up or let it go.