relinquish

From Middle English relinquisshen, from the inflected stem relinquiss- of Middle French relinquir, from Latin relinquere, itself from re- + linquere (“to leave”). Compare also Sanskrit रिणक्ति (riṇakti) ― "to leave".

• IPA^(key): [ɹɪˈlɪŋkwɪʃ]

relinquish (third-person singular simple present relinquishes, present participle relinquishing, simple past and past participle relinquished)

1. (transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something. To trade away.

   to relinquish a title

   to relinquish property

   to relinquish rights

   to relinquish citizenship or nationality

2. (transitive) To let go (free, away), physically release.
3. (transitive) To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
   • 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France

     But it was the most fleeting of false dawns. Dmitri Yachvilli slotted a penalty from distance after Flood failed to release his man on the deck, and France took a grip they would never relinquish.

4. (transitive) To accept to give up, withdraw etc.

   The delegations saved the negotiations by relinquishing their incompatible claims to sole jurisdiction

• relinquishment

• derelict
• relic
• relict
• reliquiae

• relinquish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• relinquish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.