PARTING (WITH) Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

parting (with)

verb

Definition of parting (with)

present participle of part (with)

as in discarding

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Using more detergent than necessary means buying and discarding containers more often.

— Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
During the response, drone pilots spotted the man discarding a rifle outside the residence, police said.

— Richard Ramos, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of discarding

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That discovery could potentially expose the skeletons in the NFL’s closet, shedding light on the league’s allegedly discriminatory hiring practices.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026
Returning to Earth means shedding an enormous amount of energy to slow down.

— Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of shedding

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The president’s 2024 campaign leaned into crypto to attract young men, a demographic that is deserting Republicans in the midterms.

— Isaac Arnsdorf, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026
Over the next two decades, records are few, most of them noting criminal convictions for fighting in bars, stealing a watch, deserting a whaling ship, and beating his wife.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

Definition of deserting

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A lot of people are abandoning physical amplifiers and using digital emulation.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
Tennessee changed its lethal injection protocol in 2024, abandoning its previous three-drug method in favor of the single drug pentobarbital, which slows down a person’s nervous system.

— Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of abandoning

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Supporters of 2022 World Cup champions Argentina were among the most visible in Doha during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, with some saving for four years and forsaking home-buying in order to make the trip.

— Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
If bigger and better opportunities come along, striking while the iron is hot is a logical course of action, even when moves sometimes appear to make more sense for financial reasons than footballing ones and forsaking the comfort of operating in a stable environment.

— Andy Naylor, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026

Definition of forsaking

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Hill alleged school board members tried to extort her into resigning in a memo sent to the board ahead of her firing.

— Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 5 Oct. 2026
Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon made a splash in early September for resigning and claiming artificial intelligence could one day kill humanity.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of resigning

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Eric Lai, a senior fellow with the Georgetown Center for Asian Law, said every actor in Hong Kong civil society who assumed that renouncing violence and working within the law would be fine has to revise that assumption.

— Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
That starts with renouncing the use of military intervention as a first resort and ending the practice of diplomacy by airstrike.

— MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of renouncing

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