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Definition of Relinquish
Relinquish

To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.

Related Definitions:
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Relinquish Quotations

Never relinquish the initiative.
Charles de Gaulle

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
Fran Lebowitz

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Neil Young

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
Gwyneth Paltrow

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
Jean Cocteau

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
Ulrich Beck

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Jessica Lange

Relinquish Translations

relinquish in Afrikaans is afstaan
relinquish in Danish is give efter
relinquish in Dutch is afstaan, het veld ruimen, toegeven
relinquish in German is aufgeben, loslassen
relinquish in Portuguese is abandone


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