relinquish – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to relinquish
Participle: relinquished
Gerund: relinquishing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	relinquish
we	Let's relinquish
you	relinquish

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position

abandon, beleave, bug out, desert, forgo, forlet, forsake, leave behind

to submit to the power of another

abandon, bend, capitulate, cave in, cede, fall in line, give in, give over, give up, give way, knuckle under, strike one's flag, strike the colors, strike the flag, submit, surrender, throw in the towel, throw up one's hands, turn in, wave the white flag, yield

quit

abandon, renounce, resign, forgo, renege, desert, waive

Antonyms

quit

begin, initiate, originate, arrive

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1472, from M.Fr. relinquiss-, prp. stem of relinquir (12c.), from L. relinquere "leave behind, forsake, abandon, give up," from re- "back" + linquere "to leave," from PIE *linkw-, from base *leikw- "to leave behind" (cf. Skt. reknas "inheritance, wealth," rinakti "leaves;" Gk. leipein "to leave;" Goth. leihvan, O.E. lænan "to lend;" O.H.G. lihan "to borrow;" O.N. lan "loan").
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Italic *wre-
4. Latin re-
5. Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-
6. Proto-Indo-European *-né-
7. Proto-Indo-European *linékʷti
8. Proto-Italic *linkʷō
9. Latin linquō
10. Latin relinquō
11. Old French relenquir
12. Middle French relinquirbor.
13. Middle English relinquisshen
14. English relinquish
15. From Middle English relinquisshen, from the inflected stem relinquiss- of Middle French relinquir, from Latin relinquere, itself from re- + linquere (“to leave”).
16. Compare also Sanskrit रिणक्ति (riṇakti, “to leave”). See: Latin 'relinquo', Sanskrit 'रिणक्ति'.

Verbs referencing "relinquish"

Sanskrit रिणक्ति.

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