| 单词 | relinquish |
| 释义 | re·lin·quish transitive verb 1. a. obsolete b. < the shores they have relinquished shrink to … remoteness — George Meredith > 2. a. < relinquishing the law, Webster resumed teaching — H.E.Scudder > < the … scheme had been deferred, not relinquished — Jane Austen > b. < his concealment from herself of the name he had relinquished — Charles Dickens > < refused to relinquish his claim to the inheritance > < relinquished all hope of finding survivors > 3. a. < relinquished his grip on his armchair > b. < the ambition which incites a man to seize power seldom allows him to relinquish it — Times Literary Supplement > intransitive verb obsolete Synonyms: < and your system … have courage to cast the dream of it out of you; relinquish an impossible project — George Meredith > < did not lightly relinquish his hope of victory — American Guide Series: Ind. > < it cost him a few struggles to relinquish her — Jane Austen > leave may connote more peremptory and definite action than relinquish < “he has left me,” Sophia interrupted him in her weak and fatigued voice — Arnold Bennett > < always carries his mouth open, a practice which, it is prophesied, he will soon leave off in this land of flies — Rachel Henning > abandon may stress finality and completeness in giving up, especially before dangers, hostile advances, encroachments that cannot be checked, or against the claims of duty or loyalty < the stations were withdrawn … and northern Texas abandoned to the savages — R.A.Billington > < abandoning wife and children, home and business, and renouncing normal morality and humanity — G.B.Shaw > waive may suggest either temporary or permanent forgoing; it often connotes a voluntary, complaisant giving up of something in the interests of conciliation or convenience < from that time onward the office rule was waived — E.H.Collis > resign may suggest either a formal and definite giving up or relinquishing or a wistful, stoic, or confiding yielding or acceptance without struggle < Britain rightly refused to budge from the position that it would not resign its trusteeship — Nation > < these saintly self-deniers, these resigned sufferers, who would not strive nor cry — Matthew Arnold > cede suggests giving up or granting formally by or as if by treaty, negotiation, or arbitration holdings, either willingly or under duress and compulsion, but always peacefully < strongly urging the states to cede these lands to the United States — R.B.Taney > < the Dutch were forced to cede New Amsterdam — Stringfellow Barr > yield may suggest a giving up through diplomatic concession but is more likely to connote submitting and giving over to superior force < he already saw that his friend and employer was a man who knew no moderation in his requests and impulses and he yielded gracefully — Thomas Hardy > < after a spirited contest lasting three quarters of a century, theocratic Puritanism yielded to ecclesiastical democracy — V.L.Parrington > surrender is likely to indicate giving up under compulsion to superior forces, especially after resistance or preparation for or show of resistance < Fort Orange surrendered to the English — A.C.Flick > |
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