Relinquish

Definitions: Relinquish

Relinquish

Verb

1. Part with.

2. Relinquish to the power of another; yield to the control of another.

3. Do without; "We are dispensing with formalities".

4. Turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "relinquish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Relinquish

Death

Verb: die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more. Adjective: go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one.

Hopelessness

Verb: despair; lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of; give up, give over; yield to despair; falter; despond; (be dejected); jeter le manche apres la cognee.

Inaction

Verb: not do, not act, not attempt; be inactive; abstain from doing, do nothing, hold, spare; not stir, not move, not lift a finger, not lift a foot, not lift a peg; fold one's arms, fold one's hands; leave alone, let alone; let be, let pass, let things take their course, let it have its way, let well alone, let well enough alone; quieta non movere; stare super antiquas vias; rest and be thankful, live and let live; lie rest upon one's oars; laisser aller, faire; stand aloof; refrain; (avoid) keep oneself from doing; remit one's efforts, relax one's efforts; desist; (relinquish); stop; (cease); pause; (be quiet).

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf; (disuse); set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.

Verb: 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, bid a long farewell; vacate; (resign).

Tergiversation

Verb: change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from; (relinquish); waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack.

Crosswords: Relinquish

Now, honey, I know you don't like to relinquish control. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If there are any to whom it is no interruption to acquire these things, and who know how to use them when acquired, I relinquish to them the pursuit.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Now, however, the brain is beginning to relinquish its secrets. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iraq

Persons may avoid expulsion if they relinquish their Kurdish, Turkmen, or Assyrian identity and register as Arabs. (references)

Iraq

Persons who refuse to relinquish their identity may have their assets expropriated and their ration cards withdrawn prior to being deported. (references)

Czech Republic

The law permits such persons to regain citizenship without having to relinquish the foreign citizenship that they acquired during their absence. (references)

Economic History

Comoros

When Azali took power he also pledged to step down in April 2000 and relinquish control to a democratically elected president, a pledge which he has yet to fulfill. (references)

Bolivia

Severe social tension, exacerbated by economic mismanagement and weak leadership, forced him to call early elections and relinquish power a year before the end of his constitutional term. (references)

Sudan

Abboud did not carry out his promises to return Sudan to civilian government, however, and popular resentment against army rule led to a wave of riots and strikes in late October 1964 that forced the military to relinquish power. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

In November during an audience with the Court to discuss the awarding of damages for psychological trauma caused by the disappearance and death of her spouse, Jennifer Harbury asked that the Government be ordered to relinquish Bamaca's remains. (references)

Switzerland

In May in response to a complaint arising from an attempt by local tax authorities to force taxpayers to relinquish previously undisclosed bank account information, the ECHR ruled that the Government could not allow local tax authorities to force such disclosure. (references)

Minorities

Liechtenstein

In 2000 voters approved a referendum that changed naturalization requirements to facilitate the naturalization of long-term residents, but it required that applicants relinquish their citizenship in other countries. (references)

Political Economy

Cote D'ivoire

C�te d'Ivoire's efforts to relinquish state control have advanced in numerous parts of the economy, but political maneuvering still undermines some sectors. (references)

Comoros

When he took power, Azali said that he would step down in April 2000 and relinquish power to a democratically elected president, but by year's end, he had not done so. In response to pressure to restore civilian rule, the Government organized several committees to draft a new constitution, including the August 2000 National Congress and November 2000 Tripartite Commission. (references)

Indonesia

The security forces, whose members do not have the right to vote in elections, agreed to relinquish their appointed seats in the national and regional legislatures in 2004, but appear likely to retain some seats in the MPR until as late as 2009. In 2000 Wahid signed a decree abolishing the Agency for Coordination of Assistance for the Consolidation of National Security (BAKORSTANAS), which had given the security forces had wide discretion to detain and interrogate persons who were perceived as threats to national security. (references)

Political Rights

Indonesia

The military and police have agreed to relinquish their appointed seats in the DPR and regional legislatures by 2004, but an MPR decree passed in August 2000 allows them to retain seats in the MPR until "not later than" 2009. In an apparent effort to decrease demands for an immediate end to their legislative positions, military and police legislators generally have sought to limit their involvement in matters deemed not to affect their core interests. (references)

Women

Morocco

For example, when a woman inherits property, male relatives may pressure her to relinquish her interest. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Some women participate in Al-Mesyar (or "short daytime visit") marriages, or what are described as "weekend marriages," in which the women relinquish their legal rights to financial support and nighttime cohabitation. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Traffickers reportedly often entice parents to relinquish their children with promises of large remittances that their children will be able to send back to them. (references)

China

Children trafficked to work usually are sent from poorer rural areas to relatively more affluent interior areas or large cities; traffickers reportedly often entice parents to relinquish their children with promises of the large remittances that their children will be able to send back to them. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "relinquish": relinquish a claim ♦ relinquish one's hold ♦ relinquish to. Additional references.

Afrikaan

afstaan (cede, give, give in, give up, give way, yield), afstand doen van (cede, give, give in, give up, give way, yield), afsien van (renounce, waive). (various references)

Albanian

refuzoj (debar, decline, deny, disallow, disavow, disclaim, negative, override, overrule, rat, rebuff, refuse, reject, renounce, spurn, throw over, thumb down, withhold), nuk pranoj (decline, deny, differ, disapprove, disclaim, ignore, override, protest, push away, reject, renounce, repudiate, set aside, spurn, throw off, thumb down), lë (allow, break off, chuck, cut, drop, dump, give up, grant, jilt, jump, leave, let, let by, Miss, omit, overjump, overleap, Park, pass up, permit, put, quit, release, resign, tek pupa, vacate, yield), heq dorë nga (abnegate, discard, disclaim, do without, forego, forgo, forsake, lay aside, lay down, part with, renounce, throw over, waive), braktis (cast away, cast off, chuck, desert, drop out, fall away, forsake, jilt, lay down, let go, renounce, tek pupa, throw over). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هجر (break away, cast aside, dereliction, desert, desertion, disuse, drop out, emigratory, expel, expose, flee, forsake, immigrate, jettison, leave, neglect, quit, renounce, scrap, skive, strand, surrender, throw, waive, weigh anchor), ‏تنازل (abdicate, back down, cede, concede, concession, condescend, deign, demission, disclaimer, give ground, give in, give up, part with, pass up, recede, recession, renounce, renunciation, resignation, stand down, step down, surrender, transfer, waive, waiver, yield), ‏تخلى (abandon, assign, cast aside, cede, desist, disgorge, expose, forsake, give up, go back on, hand over, leave, let down, part, quit, release, renounce, repudiate, resign, retreat, shake, shrift, sign away, slough, swear off, throw over, turn one's back on, vacate, waive, walk out on, yield), ‏أقلع (set sail, weigh anchor), ‏رخي (easy, loose, loosen, mollify, relax, slack, unbend, unhand). (various references)

Bulgarian 

напускам (abandon, desert, fall away, lay down, leave, leave off, part from, quit, vacate, void), изоставям (abandon, discard, drop, drop behind, dump, forsake, forsook, hang behind, lay aside, lay by, leave, neglect, overboard, pass up, put away, renege, renounce, shelve, turn from, turn in, walk out on). (various references)

Chinese 

棄 (abandon, to discard, to throw away), �"�弃 (Abandonment, Abnegate, Abnegated, Abnegating, Abort, Aborted, Ditched, Ditching, quit, Quits, Quitted, Quitting, relinquished, relinquishing, renege, renounce, Renounced, Renouncing, Waive, Waived, Waiver, Waiving). (various references)

Czech

zříci se (abjure, disclaim, give up, renounce, repudiate, waive), zanechat (forsake, give up, leave), vzdát se (abnegate, concede, dispense with, forsake, give away, give in, give oneself up, give up, lay down, lie down, renounce), opustit (abandon, desert, drop, forsake, leave, plant, quit, throw up, to leave). (various references)

Danish

give efter (cede, give in, give up, give way, yield). (various references)

Dutch

toegeven (accede, acknowledge, acknowledgement, add, admission, admit, agree, cede, concede, confess, consent, give in, give up, give way, grant, profess, yield), het veld ruimen (cede, give in, give up, give way, yield), afstaan (abandonment, cede, give in, give up, give way, yield). (various references)

Esperanto

rezigni pri (renounce, waive), forkonsenti (renounce, waive), cedi (cede, give in, give up, give way, yield). (various references)

Faeroese

lata sær lynda (abandon, cede, give in, give up, give way, renounce, resign, yield), eftirlíka (cede, give in, give up, give way, yield). (various references)

Farsi 

چشم پوشیدن (Ignore), ول کردن (Lax, Leave, Let, Quit, Unbridle, Unhand, Unloose), ترک کردن (Defect, Desert, Disuse, Evacuate, Leave, Pullout). (various references)

Finnish

väistyä (cede, give in, give up, give way, recede, step aside, withdraw, yield). (various references)

French

abandonner (renounce, resign, retire, retreat). (various references)

Frisian

jin ôfsette fan (renounce, waive), ôfstean (cede, give in, give up, give way, yield). (various references)

German

aufgeben (abandon, check in, cry uncle, discontinue, dispatch, drop, forsake, give in, give up, jack in, jettison, lay aside, lay away, mail, part with, place, post, quit, register, renounce, resign, say uncle, serve, set, submit, surrender, to abdicate, to capitulate, to dismiss, to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, vacate, withdraw, yield). (various references)

Greek 

παραιτώ (abandon, forgo, give up, quit, resign), παραιτούμαι (abdicate, abnegate, desist, disclaim, forgo, give up, go without, leave, quit, relinquish to, resign, resign from, waive), εγκαταλείπω (abandon, abdicate, abnegate, desert, drop out, forsake, give up, jettison, maroon, quit, renounce), αφήνω (abandon, allow, forsake, leave, let, let go of, quit, snap out of). (various references)

Hebrew 

לותר (cede, concede, forgo, give ground, give in, give up, pass up, renounce, resign, surrender, throw up), ל� טוש (abandon, brandish, cast aside, desert, forsake, lay aside, leave, let, quit, renounce). (various references)

Hungarian

lemond valamirõl (abnegate, part with, pass up, surrender, waive), felad valamit, enged (allow, cede, gave, give in, give up, give way, given, had, let, relent, to allow of, to comply with, to give, to give it best, to give the green light, to give way to, to have, to knuckle down, to lower one's flag, to relent, to slacken, to strike one's flag, to submit, to uncoop, yield), abbahagy (cease, discontinue, give up, knock off, lay aside, leave off, quit, snap out of it, stop, to break off, to can, to cease, to discard, to discontinue, to dismiss, to give over, to give up, to lay aside, to lay by, to leave off, to relinquish, to sign off, to stop, to switch off). (various references)

Indonesian

melepaskan (disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, dislocate, unbend, undo, unscrew, waive). (various references)

Italian

cedere (abandon, alienate, assign, cede, crack, devote, give, give in, give up, give way, grant, hand over, knuckle, relent, render, sag, sell, submit, succumb, surrender, transfer, yield). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"上 (give up, let loose, serve up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

へ�"じょう (give up, let loose, serve up). (various references)

Manx

irree ass (abdicate, cry off, emanate, resign, resignation, retire), faagail (abandon, bequeath, depart, descend, disembark, ditch, flitting, forsake, give up, hand down, keep on, leave, leaving, maroon, outgoing, quit, quitting, retire, season; vacating, seasoning, strand, throw over), cur seose (abdication, carry forward, disclaim, drop off, extradite, extradition, fit on, fix, flush, hang, increase, move, pitch, postulate, put up, relinquishment, represent, retire, set on fire, surrender), cur harrish (get over, go about, relinquishment, speechify). (various references)

Pig Latin

elinquishray

Portuguese

ceder (abandon, assign, break, bring to one's knees, cede, convey, demise, desist, dispose of, folder, give in, give up, give way, go, grant, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knucklebone, part with, prelude, pull off, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, weaken, yield). (various references)

Romanian

respinge (alienate, beat back, blackball, cast away, check, confute, decline, deny, disaffirm, discard, disprove, except, fend, force back, kill, leave, negate, negative, overrule, plough, rebuff, rebut, recess, refuse, refute, reject, repel, repudiate, repugn, repulse, return, throw out), renunţa (discard, disclaim, drop out, give up, surrender), pierde (balk, baulk, blunder away, cast away, chuck away, consume, dally away, disappear, drop, lose, lose out, Miss, muddle away, ruin, spill, throw away, waste), pãrãsi (abandon, cast off, cease, clear, desert, drop, evacuate, fail, flee, forsake, jilt, leave, quit, reject, renounce, surrender, throw, vacate), lepãda (cast, drop, fling, hurl, reject, renounce, shed, slink, slip, throw), lãsa (abandon, alight, allow, break, cast off, cease, create, diminish, discontinue, drop, fail, forsake, free, leave, leave behind, let, put away, quit, renounce, secure, settle, sink, sprout, stop, suffer, weaken), da drumul la (ease, exhaust, heave, let off, slack, slip, spill, stream, volley), abandona (abandon, break off an engagement, deliver up, desert, desolate, drop, expose, forsake, leave, part with, quit, relent, renounce, repudiate, resign, shelve, spare, throw). (various references)

Russian 

освобождать (absolve, acquit, affranchise, clear, deallocate, deliver, disembarrass, dismiss, emancipate, enfranchise, enlarge, excuse, exonerate, free up, let out, liberate, loosing, make free, make room, manumit, release, relieve, rid, set at large, set free, unallocate, unbind, unchain, unfetter, uninstall, unshackle, vacate, vacated, vacating, vocate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ostaviti (abandon, cast off, leave, let, walk out), odreći se (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, back down, deny, disclaim, forgo, forwent, remise, renounce, sign away, surrender, waive, withdraw). (various references)

Spanish

renunciar a (abandon, abnegate, discard, give up, leave off, pass up, put aside, recant, renounce, resign, vacate, waive), abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cast away, cede, chuck, clear away, come off, come up, desert, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give in, give up, give way, iron out, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield), desistir de (abandon, renounce, waive), ceder (acquiesce, alienate, assign, budge, cede, cold flow, concede, creep, dispose of, give, give in, give up, give way, go, grant, hand over, make over, part with, relent, render up, sign away, sign over, transfer, turn over, waive, yield). (various references)

Swedish

ge upp (abandon, back track, call it a day, concede, curl up, cut, deliver up, fink, fling up, forsake, give in, give up, lay down, scuttle, throw over, throw up, waive), avstå från (divest oneself of, forego, forgo, miss out, part with, release, sign away, waive). (various references)

Turkish

vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), teslím etmek (cede, give in, give up, give way, yield), terketmek (cede, desert, desolate, discard, disuse, ditch, expose, fall off, flee, forsake, jack in, jilt, leave, revolt from, throw over, void, walk away, walk on, walk out of, walk out on), serbest bırakmak (affranchise, deblock, decontrol, deliver, discharge, disentangle, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, free, give a horse the reins, give smb. his head, let go, let go one's hold of, let loose, let off, liberate, loose, manumit, release, set at large, set at liberty, set free, slip, unbind, unchain, unfreeze, unhitch, unloose, unrein, unshackle), feragat etmek (abdicate, demise, disclaim, release, renounce, sink, stand aside, stand down, surrender, waive), başkasına bırakmak, bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out). (various references)

Ukranian 

відмовлятися (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, back down, backtrack, cast off, discard, forgo, forsake, forswear, jettison, lay aside, lay down, nill, part with, pass up, pretext, recede, refuse, renounce, repeal, retract, throw aside, throw out, throw over, waive, withdraw), залишати (abandon, chuck, depart, desert, desolate, forsake, give over, leave, quit, throw over, void), поступатися (admit, attribute, cede, comply, concede, give ground, give in, knuckle down, knuckle under, listen, retreat, surrender, yield). (various references)

decessit, permiserit, permisisset, permisit, permissum, permittas, permitte, permittebat, permitteret, permittes, permittis, permittite, permittitur, permitto, relinquere. (various references)

alecgan. (various references)

relaisser. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "relinquish": relinquished, relinquishes, relinquishing, relinquishment, relinquishments. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Relinquish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: relenquish, relinguish, relinquis, relinquisn, reliques, reliqui, reliquish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: inquires.

-3 letters: hurlies, inliers, inquire, requins, shinier, silique.

-4 letters: hirsel, hirsle, inlier, inrush, insure, inures, liners, linier, lunier, lunies, lusher, nihils, querns, quires, relish, requin, risque, rusine, sequin, shiner, shrine, sileni, squire, urines, ursine.

-5 letters: heils, heirs, herls, herns, hilus, hires, hurls, ileus, inure, lehrs, lenis, liens, liers, lieus, liner, lines, lunes, lures, nihil.

+2 letters: relinquished, relinquishes.

+3 letters: relinquishing.

+4 letters: relinquishment.

+5 letters: relinquishments.

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