Relinquished

Definitions: Relinquished

Relinquished

Adjective

1. That has been withdrawn or retreated from.

2. Given up often unwillingly; "a relinquishment is a piece of relinquished or abandoned land".

Date "relinquished" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Synonym: Relinquished

Synonym: surrendered (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Relinquished

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Relinquishment	Adjective: relinquished; Verb: cast off, derelict; unowned, unappropriated, unculled; left; (residuary).
	Adjective: unpursued; relinquished; Verb: relinquishing; Verb:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Relinquished

English words defined with "relinquished": abdicable ♦ past, preceding ♦ retiring ♦ surrendered. (references)

Specialty definitions using "relinquished": Demise charter. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Relinquished

Domain	Title
Books	Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories (reference) Care of the Mother Grieving a Baby Relinquished for Adoption (reference) Walking the Relinquished Path (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Relinquished

Title	Author	Quote
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	But he put his hand upon the key he had relinquished, turned it sturdily, walked in, and lighted his candle.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	And he relinquished the proposal to the family.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Relinquished

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Bulgaria	In 1989, Zhivkov relinquished control, and democratic change began. (references)
	South Africa	In May 196 1, South Africa relinquished its dominion status and declared itself a republic. (references)
	Israel	Late in 1993 the GOI relinquished its monopoly on the importation of almost all types of meat. (references)
Political Economy	ITALY	On January 1, 1999 Italy relinquished control over exchange rate policy to the European Central Bank. (references)
	Uganda	The Constitution provides for civilian control of the UPDF, with the President designated as commander in chief; in July the President relinquished his post as Minister of Defense and named a civilian for the first time. (references)
	Solomon Islands	In October 2000, representatives of the central Government, provincial governments, and the opposing armed militant groups signed a peace agreement, which, among other things, included a general amnesty for members of the police who committed criminal acts in the course of the armed conflict after June 5, 2000. In accordance with the agreement, a team of international observers has been in the country since November 2000 to verify that weapons were relinquished and to monitor implementation of the peace. (references)
Political Rights	Venezuela	In Amazonas state, following a recount of all votes for governor, the CNE reversed the results of the governor's race, announcing on October 10, 2000, that Liborio Guarulla of the Popular Workers' Party (PPT) party had defeated Bernabe Gutierrez of the Democratic Action (AD) party by 10,971 votes to 10,534. Gutierrez called the CNE decision "arbitrary and unjust" but relinquished the governorship peacefully. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Relinquished

"Relinquished" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 58.38% of the time. "Relinquished" is used about 173 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	58.38%	101	32,488
Lexical Verb (past participle)	39.31%	68	40,606
Adjective (general or positive)	2.31%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	173	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Relinquished

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
relinquished	36
gi oh relinquished yu	8
relinquished yugioh	6
card relinquished	3
deck relinquished	3
card gi oh relinquished yu	3
card relinquished yugioh	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Relinquished

Language		Translations for "relinquished"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"�弃 (Abandonment, Abnegate, Abnegated, Abnegating, Abort, Aborted, Ditched, Ditching, quit, Quits, Quitted, Quitting, relinquish, relinquishing, renege, renounce, Renounced, Renouncing, Waive, Waived, Waiver, Waiving). (various references)

German		ließ los (unclasped, unhanded), aufgegeben (abandoned, capitulated, derelict, forsaken, given up, surrendered, vacated, waived). (various references)

Pig Latin		elinquishedray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Relinquished

Misspellings
	"Relinquished" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: relenquished. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Relinquished"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "relinquished" (pronounced ruli"ngkwisht or rēli"ngkwisht)
6	-ng k w i sh t	vanquished.
4	-w i sh t	anguished, distinguished, extinguished, languished, undistinguished.
3	-i sh t	accomplished, admonished, astonished, banished, blemished, brandished, demolished, diminished, embellished, established, finished, flourished, garnished, impoverished, lavished, nourished, perished, polished, published, punished, reestablished, refinished, refurbished, relished, replenished, semifinished, undiminished, unfinished, unpublished, unpunished, unvarnished, vanished, varnished.
6	-ng k w i sh t	vanquished.
4	-w i sh t	anguished, distinguished, extinguished, languished, undistinguished.
3	-i sh t	accomplished, admonished, astonished, banished, blemished, brandished, demolished, diminished, embellished, established, finished, flourished, garnished, impoverished, lavished, nourished, perished, polished, published, punished, reestablished, refinished, refurbished, relished, replenished, semifinished, undiminished, unfinished, unpublished, unpunished, unvarnished, vanished, varnished.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Relinquished

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-i-i-l-n-q-r-s-u"
	-2 letters: relinquish.
	-3 letters: enquiries, sideliner, underlies.
	-4 letters: enquired, enquires, esquired, hirseled, hirudins, inquired, inquires, leisured, queerish, redlines, reliques, relished, reshined, sequined, shielder, sideline, squireen, underlie, uredines, uridines.
	-5 letters: deniers, dishier, duelers, eluders, endures, enisled, enquire, ensiled, ensured, equines, esquire, heinies, henries, hinders, hirsled, hirudin, hurdies, hurdles, hurlies, inhered, inheres, inliers, inquire, insider, insured, leisure, lenders.
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