I would rather die than relinquish my virginity before marriage.
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Relinquish
//ɹɪˈlɪŋkwɪʃ//
Synonyms for "relinquish" (144 found)
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Closest matches (29)
Strong matches (43)
Related words (72)
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10 entriesSynonyms
8 entriesRelated terms
8 entriesderived
6 entriesrelated to
16 entriesTranslations
124 translations across 26 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- изоставям verb (to give up, abandon)
- изпускам verb (to let go, physically release)
- напускам verb (to give up, abandon)
- отказвам се verb (to surrender, yield control or possession)
Catalan
4 entries- abandonar verb (to give up, abandon)
- cedir verb (to give up, abandon)
- deixar verb (to give up, abandon)
- derelinquir verb (to give up, abandon)
Dutch
4 entries- afstand doen van verb (to give up, abandon)
- loslaten verb (to give up, abandon)
- loslaten verb (to let go, physically release)
- loslaten verb (to surrender, yield control or possession)
Esperanto
1 entries- abandoni verb (to give up, abandon)
Finnish
4 entries- luopua verb (to give up, abandon)
- luopua verb (to let go, physically release)
- luovuttaa verb (to give up, abandon)
- luovuttaa verb (to let go, physically release)
French
4 entries- abandonner verb (to give up, abandon)
- céder verb (to give up, abandon)
- délaisser verb (to give up, abandon)
- lâcher verb (to let go, physically release)
German
4 entries- Verzicht leisten verb (to let go, physically release)
- abtreten verb (to let go, physically release)
- abtreten verb (to accept to give up, withdraw etc.)
- aufgeben verb (to give up, abandon)
Hungarian
4 entries- elenged verb (to let go, physically release)
- elereszt verb (to let go, physically release)
- felad verb (to give up, abandon)
- felad verb (to accept to give up, withdraw etc.)
Irish
1 entries- tabhair suas verb (to give up, abandon)
Italian
4 entries- abbandonare verb (to give up, abandon)
- cedere verb (to give up, abandon)
- cedere verb (to surrender, yield control or possession)
- consegnare verb (to surrender, yield control or possession)
Japanese
1 entries- 放棄する verb (to give up, abandon)
Korean
1 entries- 포기하다 verb (to give up, abandon)
Latin
1 entries- relinquō verb (to give up, abandon)
Māori
1 entries- tuku verb (to give up, abandon)
Norwegian
2 entries- gi opp verb (to give up, abandon)
- å gi opp verb (to surrender, yield control or possession)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- براقمق verb (to give up, abandon)
- براقمق verb (to let go, physically release)
- صالمق verb (to let go, physically release)
Polish
4 entries- poddawać verb (to surrender, yield control or possession)
- porzucać verb (to give up, abandon)
- porzucać verb (to let go, physically release)
- zwalniać verb (to let go, physically release)
Portuguese
4 entries- abandonar verb (to give up, abandon)
- abandonar verb (to surrender, yield control or possession)
- ceder verb (to give up, abandon)
- deixar verb (to give up, abandon)
Romanian
1 entries- lepăda verb (to give up, abandon)
Russian
4 entries- оставлять verb (to give up, abandon)
- отказываться verb (to give up, abandon)
- отпускать verb (to let go, physically release)
- сдавать verb (to surrender, yield control or possession)
Sanskrit
1 entries- रिणक्ति verb (to give up, abandon)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- odstupiti verb (to give up, abandon)
- odstupiti verb (to surrender, yield control or possession)
- prepustiti verb (to give up, abandon)
- prepustiti verb (to surrender, yield control or possession)
Slovak
2 entries- odstúpiť verb (to give up, abandon)
- odstúpiť verb (to surrender, yield control or possession)
Spanish
4 entries- abandonar verb (to give up, abandon)
- ceder verb (to give up, abandon)
- dejar verb (to give up, abandon)
- derelinquir verb (to give up, abandon)
Thai
1 entries- สละ verb (to give up, abandon)
Turkish
4 entries- bırakmak verb (to give up, abandon)
- bırakmak verb (to let go, physically release)
- el çekmek verb (to give up, abandon)
- elini çekmek verb (to give up, abandon)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
They will never relinquish power willingly.
Source: tatoeba (8860368)
Power is a drug which few ever manage to relinquish.
Source: tatoeba (8972098)
They will relinquish power and dismantle the single-party state.
Source: tatoeba (10722125)
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