What are the antonyms for RELINQUISH?
- protect, assert, hold, take up, adopt, support, secure, appropriate, occupy, advocate, remain, defend, vindicate, safeguard, prosecute, usurp, cherish, take, pursue, keep, wrest, maintain, haunt, uphold, favor, claim, seize, undertake, guard, fight, gather, retain, win, arrogate, seek, revert, stay, court, continue, allow.
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Synonyms for RELINQUISH
- takes a walk,
- cut loose,
- junked,
- aliening,
- forgoing,
- hit the sack,
- letting out,
- leaving out,
- remit,
- parted from,
- lavish upon,
- seclude oneself,
- dumper,
- walks,
- owned up,
- forfeit,
- lay down,
- Plumped,
- outgrow,
- taking the cure,
- call it quits,
- forked out,
- sat out,
- Passed,
- Shying,
- leave alone,
- lay upon,
- kiss off,
- shake off,
- passes on,
- forces out,
- pack up,
- come across with,
- vamoose,
- give the slip,
- let air out,
- set out,
- abstains from,
- submit,
- paying back,
- withdraw,
- lay aside,
- Stranding,
- toss it in,
- wash one's hands of,
- eating humble pie,
- suffers defeat,
- Remise,
- ultimates,
- gotten away,
- bow to,
- washed out,
- cast,
- went to bed,
- moved back,
- leave,
- chuck,
- have done with,
- prorogues,
- kiss good-bye,
- granted,
- relegate,
- Tendering,
- walking,
- emigrate,
- retreat,
- parts with,
- paid back,
- Ejected,
- leave stranded,
- wash out,
- switch off,
- end service,
- part from,
- make amends,
- pack it in,
- throw in the sponge,
- give the nod,
- part with,
- Forbore,
- abdicate,
- foregone,
- letting go,
- go west,
- caves in,
- going to bed,
- head out,
- Paused,
- give in,
- forgo,
- moves back,
- going with the flow,
- give oneself over,
- pushing off,
- taking leave,
- nose-dives,
- plummet,
- left out,
- go back on,
- give up work,
- let out,
- exited,
- junking,
- take oath,
- out with it,
- laid down,
- making good,
- be reduced,
- make up for,
- resign,
- give,
- fall back,
- gives ground,
- going to sleep,
- keeping apart,
- Exchanging,
- sit out,
- Rusticated,
- put out to pasture,
- Pensioned,
- Prorogued,
- refrain from,
- sign off on,
- laid upon,
- wash hands of,
- Proroguing,
- sew up,
- owns up,
- take leave,
- pack in,
- traded,
- Retrograding,
- suffer defeat,
- give over,
- pulling the plug,
- Demit,
- accept,
- rid,
- strands,
- lease,
- making amends,
- surrender,
- nose-diving,
- restitute,
- despair,
- hang it up,
- pay back,
- opt out,
- heap upon,
- passed up,
- drop like hot potato,
- disown,
- surcease,
- giving ground,
- give the heave ho,
- forgets about,
- use up,
- sever connections,
- admit defeat,
- crawl out,
- give ground,
- pass on,
- leave out,
- take a walk,
- folding,
- put up white flag,
- dismiss,
- shed,
- made up for,
- go over the hill,
- cede,
- pony up,
- leave holding the bag,
- setting aside,
- leave service,
- washing out,
- not do,
- say goodbye,
- sign off,
- play ball with,
- throw in the towel,
- give thumbs up,
- take a hike,
- superannuated,
- gives back,
- makes amends,
- leave flat,
- Ratted,
- put lid on,
- Sallied,
- keep aloof,
- pass up,
- tossed aside,
- eliminate,
- move out of,
- passed down,
- cast out,
- deeded,
- desert,
- leave hanging,
- suffer loss,
- Caving,
- rusticate,
- let hair down,
- push aside,
- Beaching,
- put the lid on,
- saying goodbye,
- left alone,
- walk out,
- make available,
- kiss goodbye,
- separated from,
- laying down,
- start back,
- pull the plug,
- cave in,
- take the pledge,
- passing on,
- suffering loss,
- waste one,
- terminate,
- walking out,
- driving out,
- go to bed,
- went away,
- give notice,
- be impoverished,
- drop,
- aliened,
- capitulate,
- losing,
- yielding,
- Knuckling,
- deep-sixes,
- Pensioning,
- go to one's room,
- retire,
- parting with,
- prorogue,
- run out on,
- coming to terms,
- consented to,
- lets go,
- render,
- Handing,
- made amends,
- owning up,
- going away,
- swear off,
- top off,
- show out,
- discontinue,
- making for,
- buckle under,
- passed on,
- leave in lurch,
- drop out,
- Retrograded,
- easer,
- study at waive,
- render needless,
- play dead,
- gave way,
- fails to keep,
- drop like a hot potato,
- separate from,
- spare,
- fall short,
- Leasing,
- cast off,
- plumping,
- gave up work,
- dittoed,
- pulling back,
- make repayment,
- yield,
- divorce oneself from,
- Ultimated,
- swept away,
- apostacize,
- dust off,
- back down,
- caving in,
- pulled back,
- topped off,
- moved out,
- giving over,
- waive,
- kissing,
- lay down arms,
- nose-dive,
- ratting,
- dump,
- given,
- evacuate,
- cast aside,
- Withdrew,
- Flipping,
- stood down,
- shorting,
- deep-six,
- go away,
- pushed aside,
- calls it quits,
- lose,
- roll over,
- dispel,
- swearing off,
- got away,
- retreating,
- ante up,
- put up with,
- setting out,
- be deprived of,
- tell all,
- slough off,
- dispose of,
- forsake,
- parcelling out,
- Knuckled,
- go on the wagon,
- retrogrades,
- gave back,
- sloughs off,
- abstain from,
- take the oath,
- be hopeless,
- renounce,
- desist,
- abandon,
- get off chest,
- drifts away,
- fold up,
- own up,
- give nod,
- cease,
- knuckles,
- goes away,
- let go of,
- play truant,
- admitted defeat,
- keep apart,
- lose heart,
- take the cure,
- give thumbs-up,
- throwing in the towel,
- left stranded,
- remises,
- retire from,
- let have,
- call it a day,
- give back,
- forswear,
- violate oath,
- remove oneself,
- shies,
- casting out,
- get away,
- give up the ship,
- become poorer,
- make vacant,
- move back,
- adios,
- separate oneself from,
- give work,
- putting up with,
- fork over,
- fail to keep,
- tenders,
- parted with,
- quit,
- gave in,
- shake on,
- free,
- drift away,
- Ultimating,
- sneak off,
- eat humble pie,
- nose-dived,
- leave high and dry,
- gets away,
- go along with,
- free of,
- run along,
- throw overboard,
- ponies up,
- sign over,
- pulls back,
- Shied,
- throwing overboard,
- abnegate,
- deeding,
- falling short,
- forbear,
- call a day,
- Caved,
- pass down,
- stand aside,
- move out,
- giving way,
- cease work,
- retired,
- grin and bear it,
- discard,
- deliver up,
- release,
- Gifting,
- put with,
- recoup,
- go away from,
- leaf,
- get done,
- superannuate,
- cancel,
- switched off,
- come around,
- reject,
- getting rid of,
- make for,
- parcel out,
- run for the hills,
- go with the flow,
- toss aside,
- go forth,
- forcing out,
- plumps,
- toss over,
- impart,
- get off one's chest,
- be submissive,
- ditch,
- give way,
- let go,
- resign oneself,
- sweep away,
- divorce from,
- took the pledge,
- stand down,
- be alienated from,
- file in circular file,
- nose dive,
- give out,
- refund,
- foreswear,
- deep-sixed,
- stop working,
- Sallying,
- remunerate,
- give up,
- hand in resignation,
- go back,
- chuck in,
- come to terms,
- drive out,
- running out on,
- knuckle,
- vent,
- Embarking,
- forego,
- fork up,
- toss in,
- giving back,
- slip out,
- parceled out,
- turn over,
- deny oneself,
- consent to,
- hang up,
- humoring,
- shaker,
- lock out,
- go to sleep,
- force out,
- forget about,
- flip,
- tergiverse,
- sacrifice,
- yes one,
- unbosom,
- show the door,
- vacate,
- made over,
- end,
- relinquish,
- packed in,
- have heavy heart,
- put by,
- quit cold turkey,
- ride off,
- left in the lurch,
- grant,
- send off,
- packs in,
- disclaim,
- repudiate,
- reap,
- pass,
- pull back,
- say uncle,
- dispense with,
- shakes off,
- make good,
- be careless,
- used up,
- quitclaim,
- gift with,
- signing on,
- sewed up,
- unburden,
- Forgone,
- washes out,
- leaves out,
- throw in,
- come away,
- stop,
- getting away,
- putting out to pasture,
- handed,
- hand over,
- drives out,
- throw in towel,
- bag it,
- kick,
- switching off,
- shorts,
- defect,
- skidaddle,
- deep-sixing,
- Tendered,
- moving back,
- dispose,
- honor a claim,
- shorted,
- concede,
- lose faith,
- jettison,
- push back,
- using up,
- lay bare,
- make over,
- be stripped of,
- kept apart,
- packed up,
- fork out,
- nosedived.
Usage Examples for RELINQUISH
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Your last letter has made me very sad, but I do not relinquish all hope of leading the somewhat difficult diplomatic transaction concerning your " Siegfried" to a successful issue. - "Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1" by Francis Hueffer (translator)
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He had been too deeply impressed by her to easily relinquish his previously formed opinion of her character. - "The Case and The Girl" by Randall Parrish
