relinquish


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
relinquish /rɪˈlɪŋkwɪʃ/
verb voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up.
– derivatives
relinquishment noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. relinquiss-, lengthened stem of relinquir, from L. relinquere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + linquere ‘to leave’.
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