relinquishin a sentence
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Mary Queen of Scots refused to relinquish her throne, so Queen Elizabeth had her executed.relinquish = give up
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Relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall.relinquish = let go of
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I am relinquishing my bedroom to our house guestrelinquishing = giving up
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It is time for me to relinquish the old ideas.relinquish = give up
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In his haste, he did not relinquish his grip on the toolbox as he sprinted to the bottom of Himmel Street, took a few side roads, and entered the trees. (source)relinquish = let go of
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Each family member, including Lily, had been required to sign a pledge that they would not become attached to this little temporary guest, and that they would relinquish him without protest or appeal when he was assigned to his own family unit at next year's Ceremony. (source)relinquish = surrender (give away)
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How could I relinquish my memory of this? (source)relinquish = let go of
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Phil relinquished control to the Norden bombsight. (source)relinquished = gave up
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"I didn't know this was a pajama party," Turtle said, relinquishing her chair and stomping to the far end of the table. (source)relinquishing = giving up
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This has been represented as both an implied relinquishment of those debts and a wicked way to protect public defaulters.† (source)
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He relinquishes Anna from his grasp and takes a step towards me.† (source)relinquishes = gives up or lets go
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So saying, Eumaeus at his hand received His brazen lance, and o'er the step of stone 50 Enter'd Telemachus, to whom his sire Relinquish'd, soon as he appear'd, his seat, But him Telemachus forbidding, said— Guest, keep thy seat; our cottage will afford Some other, which Eumaeus will provide.† (source)Relinquish'd = gave up or let go
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And I also began gradually to understand how the turmoil that was grinding them to pieces had double origins, deriving perhaps equally from the black and tormented underside of Nathan's nature and from the unrelinquished reality of Sophie's immediate past, trailing its horrible smoke—as if from the very chimneys of Auschwitz—of anguish, confusion, self-deception and, above all, guilt ... I had been sitting one evening at around six o'clock at our usual table at the Maple Court, sipping beer and reading the New York Post.† (source)unrelinquished = not given up or let gostandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrelinquished means not and reverses the meaning of relinquished. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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You could relinquish him to an orphanage here, then file an orphan petition. (source)relinquish = surrender
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The child, relinquished by the nurse, rushed across the room and rooted shyly into her mother's dress. (source)relinquished = released
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We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. (source)relinquishing = letting go of
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