foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish
(verb) turn away from; give up; “I am foreswearing women forever”
release, relinquish, resign, free, give up
(verb) part with a possession or right; “I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest”; “resign a claim to the throne”
waive, relinquish, forgo, forego, foreswear, dispense with
(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to; “We are dispensing with formalities”; “relinquish the old ideas”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
relinquish (third-person singular simple present relinquishes, present participle relinquishing, simple past and past participle relinquished)
(transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something. To trade away.
(transitive) To let go (free, away), physically release.
(transitive) To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
(transitive) To accept to give up, withdraw etc.
Source: Wiktionary
Re*lin"quish (-kwsh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relinquished (-kwsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Relinquishing.] Etym: [OF. relinquir, L. relinquere to leave behind; pref. re- re + linquere to leave. See Loan, and cf. Relic, Relict.]
1. To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit. We ought to relinquish such rites. Hooker. They placed Irish tenants upon the lands relinquished by the English. Sir J. Davies.
2. To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.
Syn.
– To resign; leave; quit; forsake; abandon; desert; renounce; forbResign.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 February 2025
(noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
