relinquish

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One or the other you must relinquish, and it is yours to make a choice between them.

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  1. transitive verb To retire from; give up or abandon.
  2. transitive verb To put aside or desist from (something practiced, professed, or intended).
  3. transitive verb To let go; surrender.
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  • Ontario Superior Court of Justice yesterday ordered Vannatter Group and Transcast to release tooling equipment owned by GM that the supplier refused to relinquish, according to a court filing. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Or did He relinquish the title of "environmentalist" when He did the burning bush thing? —  Latest Articles
  • Defending champions Gamba served notice that they will not relinquish their title lightly with a dominant 3-0 home win over Chinese Super League champions Shandong Luneng. —  Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
  • Slide 59: negotiation with Ford family shareholders to request that they relinquish, for the common good of all shareholders, any preexisting rights. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • During this stagnant stretch, he would relinquish his title, and it wasn't till late January that he saw live action again, blowing out Edel Ruiz in less than one round on the Shane Mosley-Antonio Margarito undercard at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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  1. Middle English relinquisshen, from Old French relinquir, relinquiss-, from Latin relinquere : re-, re- + linquere, to leave; see leikw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French relinquiss-, stem of certain parts of relinquir, relenquir, from Latin relinquere, past participle relictus, leave, from re- + linquere, leave: see license, and cf. relic, relict, and delinquent.
 

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/rəˈlɪŋkwɪʃ/
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