RELINQUISH

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit. We ought to relinquish such rites. Hooker. They placed Irish tenants upon the lands relinquished by the English. Sir J. Davies.

2.
v.

To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.

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