0 past simple and past participle of relinquish
1 to give up something such as a responsibility or claim:
Experimenters on emotions relinquished the ideal of total control for the sake of producing strong emotions.
That responsibility cannot be relinquished during the selection of candidacy or organ allocation.
Control is only relinquished when the symptoms are no longer manageable.
He maintained that the liberty to petition the king was an incontrovertible right which he insisted must not be relinquished.
In contrast, carers in our sample who were not engaged in or had relinquished other roles felt more resentful about caregiving.
The daughter accepted this distinction, and her father eventually relinquished, readmitting her into his household.
Of those who had once used bottle supplement, 60% never relinquished it and half of them (19%) stopped breast-feeding altogether.
Social conventions may also determine that once a role is acquired it cannot be relinquished at all.
