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relinquished
adjective as in abandoned
adjective as in derelict
adjective as in deserted
adjective as in lorn
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Example Sentences
By 2012, Democrats achieved a supermajority in the state legislature that they have rarely relinquished since.
It says most children are now adopted from care, with only a small number "relinquished" for adoption.
To finance them, they’ve sold vast swaths of church property and in some cases exhausted or relinquished insurance coverage for past and future abuse claims.
After World War Two, Japan surrendered and relinquished control of territory it had taken from China.
Half a century or more after the UK relinquished control over almost all its vast global empire, it has finally agreed to hand over one of the very last pieces.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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