In order to get to heaven you must relinquish your evil desires.
Relinquish your grip or suffer the consequences.
In order to get to heaven you must relinquish your evil desires.
Because they captured Indiana Jones' father, he was forced to relinquish the secret map.
It was difficult to relinquish my position before the project was completed, but my term as chairman was over.
You can use the word "relinquish" to mean voluntarily giving up or letting go of something, such as power, control, or a claim. An example sentence would be, "She had to relinquish her position as CEO after the company encountered a financial crisis."
the ashamed children relinquished their stash of candy.
The problem with being a celebrity is that you relinquish your anonymity
The word "relinquish" is a verb.
It was difficult to relinquish my position before the project was completed, but my term as chairman was over
In ordinary usuage, "forfeit" means to relinquish your rights, as in: "I choose to forfeit my rights to the property that I own".
It is on pg. 123 in the Giver. Great book by Lois Lowry!
To relinquish something means to let it go. You can relinquish a debt that someone has to you. But if you have a debt to someone else, you can't relinquish that, You owe that money to them.