0 present participle of relinquish
1 to give up something such as a responsibility or claim:
Maintaining multiple roles in the face of competing demands or, contrariwise, relinquishing roles or giving precedence to caregiving, both carry inherent difficulties.
This meant that the indigenous peoples living in these areas were forced to move to other areas, relinquishing their traditional rights on these areas.
Relinquishing variation to natural forces was for them tantamount to claiming that variation was arbitrary, with no ordained cause or foreseeable end.
He did take some short-term risk by relinquishing the credit he could have received from other mathematicians and astronomers through early widespread replications.
And if forgiveness means relinquishing a legal path toward justice, who among us should be entitled to make that moral judgment on our behalf?
Reliance on the family came at the price of relinquishing control over assets.
Many were thus forced to leave thereby relinquishing their right to the land and the hut.
The significance of relinquishing this physical contact is uncertain.
