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Synonyms for relinquish
Synonyms for relinquish: release, waive and forfeit. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for relinquish
Interchangeable with relinquish, one per sense
Audited under relinquish's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one relinquish carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name relinquish as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- forfeitforfeit is a verb in the sense "to lose or give up money as a penalty"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under relinquish and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
release, as from one's grip
Relinquish your grip on the rope and step back slowly.
The true synonym
release
Same sentence, swapped: Release your grip on the rope and step back slowly.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- waive
- renounce
- hold
do without or cease to hold or adhere to
Relinquish the old ideas.
The true synonym
waive
Same sentence, swapped: Waive the old ideas.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- free
- utilize
- dissect
Where relinquish turns up in the game
relinquish is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play relinquish
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so relinquish reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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