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Part :: Part (v. i.) To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from.

Release :: Release (n.) A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.

Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.

Place :: Place (n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).

Remission :: Remission (n.) Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc..

Cost :: Cost (v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life..

Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment..

Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend..

Forego :: Forego (v. t.) To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated..

Quitclaim :: Quitclaim (n.) A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself..

Relinquent :: Relinquent (n.) One who relinquishes.

Relinquish :: Relinquish (v. t.) To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit..

Leave :: Leave (v.) To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish..

Relinquishing :: Relinquishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relinquis.

Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. i.) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity..

Relinquish :: Relinquish (v. t.) To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt..

Relinquishment :: Relinquishment (n.) The act of relinquishing.

Relinquished :: Relinquished (imp. & p. p.) of Relinquis.

Dispose :: Dispose (v. t.) To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time..

Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy..

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