Usually means: Give up possession or control.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word relinquish:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. relinquish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. relinquish: Merriam-Webster
  3. relinquish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. relinquish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. relinquish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. relinquish: Vocabulary.com
  7. Relinquish, relinquish: Wordnik
  8. relinquish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. relinquish: Wiktionary
  10. relinquish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. relinquish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. relinquish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Relinquish, relinquish: Dictionary.com
  14. relinquish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. relinquish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Relinquish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. relinquish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. relinquish: Rhymezone
  19. relinquish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. relinquish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. relinquish: FreeDictionary.org
  22. relinquish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. relinquish: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relinquish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relinquish: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relinquish: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relinquish: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something; to trade away.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To let go (free, away), physically release.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To accept to give up, withdraw etc.

Similar:
waive, surrender, give up, renounce, quit, foreswear, release, forgo, dispense with, free, more...

Opposite:
retain, keep, hold

Types:
give up, surrender, abandon, renounce, more...

Phrases:
to relinquish power, relinquish rights, opposite of relinquish, relinquish voluntarily, to relinquish control, more...

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     smoke,     stone, more...


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Similar:
waive, surrender, give up, renounce, quit, foreswear, release, forgo, dispense with, free, more...

Opposite:
retain, keep, hold

Types:
give up, surrender, abandon, renounce, more...

Phrases:
to relinquish power, relinquish rights, opposite of relinquish, relinquish voluntarily, to relinquish control, more...

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     smoke,     stone, more...



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