Relinquish vs Overgive - What's the difference?
relinquish | overgive |
To give up, abandon or retire from something.
To let go (free, away), physically release.
To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
To accept to give up, withdraw etc.
To give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
*:For th'heavens have decreëd to displace / The Britons for their sinnes dew punishment / And to the Saxons over-give their government.
(obsolete) To give up, terminate.
In lang=en terms the difference between relinquish and overgive
is that relinquish is to accept to give up, withdraw etc while overgive is to give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish.As verbs the difference between relinquish and overgive
is that relinquish is to give up, abandon or retire from something while overgive is to give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish.relinquish
English
Verb
(es)- to relinquish a title
- to relinquish property
- to relinquish rights
- to relinquish citizenship or nationality
- But it was the most fleeting of false dawns. Dmitri Yachvilli slotted a penalty from distance after Flood failed to release his man on the deck, and France took a grip they would never relinquish .
- ''The delegations saved the negotiations by relinquishing their incompatible claims to sole jurisdiction