RELINQUISHING Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

relinquishing

verb

present participle of relinquish

as in surrendering

to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress the boy reluctantly relinquished the illegal fireworks to the police officer

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as in abdicating

to give up (as a position of authority) formally the retiring CEO relinquished his position to the company's vice president with very mixed feelings

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Recent Examples of relinquishing Venus Venus will soon be relinquishing its dominance of the early evening sky. — Joe Rao, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026 But that would have meant Parton relinquishing half the publishing rights and therefore half the royalties. — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 America is the ultimate answer to the pogrom, and to the emancipation Europe offered on the condition of relinquishing Jewish ethnic and cultural distinctiveness. — Rory Lancman, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026 Giudice survived prison, divorce and years of family warfare without relinquishing her place at the center of New Jersey. — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026 For Harrison, the collaboration also meant relinquishing some control. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 22 July 2026 Clearly, the Flyers are comfortable with relinquishing first-round picks in their next four drafts as there is more value in having a true 1C in Carlsson. — Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 8 July 2026 But for Iran, reopening the strait does not mean relinquishing control of it. — Xiaoqian Lin, CNN Money, 29 June 2026 Furthermore, leaders like George Washington achieved greatness not by hoarding power, but by relinquishing it. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 June 2026

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The elite programs get another Saturday of tickets, parking, concessions and television inventory without surrendering a future home date.

— Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
The bullpen was coming off a rough night, surrendering five runs in Wednesday’s 9-6 loss, a game in which the Royals led 5-2.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of surrendering

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And with the aforementioned outgoings, the Uruguay international is also probably Tottenham’s best player in the air now, rendering him near-undroppable.

— Elias Burke, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
But the bigger issue is that Tenzing keeps its title character and his closest ally (to say nothing of all the smaller characters around them) at a reverent distance, rendering them in broad strokes rather than fine shading.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

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But airlines were furious, demanding that the head of NATS, Martin Rolfe, consider resigning after the second air traffic meltdown in three years.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
Budget carriers Ryanair and Wizz Air have called for the head of the NATS, Martin Rolfe, to consider resigning after a second major outage hit the air traffic control system in three years.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026

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Researchers developed new control methods to help the insects not only move in the right direction and turn around, but also remain stable for long enough while delivering the medicine.

— Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2026
This $20 million contract signifies a broader shift from proving that autonomy works to delivering an operational breaching package that soldiers can employ.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026

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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

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