Relinquish

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 87

rē-ling′kwish, v.t. to abandon: to give up: to renounce a claim to.— adj. Relin′quent , relinquishing.— ns. Relin′quisher ; Relin′quishment , act of giving up. [O. Fr. relinquir —L. relinquĕre , relictum — re- , away from, linquĕre , to leave.]