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derelinquishing

derelinquishing is the present participle and gerund of derelinquish.

Meaning of derelinquish

Verb

derelinquish (third-person singular simple present derelinquishes, present participle derelinquishing, simple past and past participle derelinquished)

  1. to abandon or desert, to leave to itself
    • During this elemental conflict, and the crash and ruin of the submerged continent, many of its component parts must have been reduced to atoms, and dispersed through the swelling waves that usurped its place. The more liquid bitumens must by the agitation have intimately mixed with them. They must...1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays, London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street for D. Bremer (successor to Mr. Elmsly) Strand, page 81

Questions about derelinquishing

What is derelinquishing the present participle and gerund of?
Derelinquishing is the present participle and gerund of derelinquish.

Words near derelinquishing in the dictionary

  1. dereligionizes
  2. dereligionizing
  3. derelinquish
  4. derelinquished
  5. derelinquishes
  6. derelinquishing
  7. derelomine
  8. derender
  9. derendering
  10. DeRenzo
  11. DeRenzos

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