All relinquish antonyms

verb relinquish

• defend — If you defend someone or something, you take action in order to protect them.
• acquire — If you acquire something, you buy or obtain it for yourself, or someone gives it to you.
• garrisoning — Present participle of garrison.
• highjack — to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey.
• accessing — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
• garrisoned — a body of troops stationed in a fortified place.
• highjacking — Present participle of highjack.
• make good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
• make a killing — If you make a killing, you make a large profit very quickly and easily.
• worsted — that which is worst.
• lay hold of — to seize or grasp
• copped — to catch; nab.
• make it — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
• disciplining — Present participle of discipline.
• babysit — If you babysit for someone or babysit their children, you look after their children while they are out.
• housed — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
• creamed — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
• accomplish — If you accomplish something, you succeed in doing it.
• copping — the winding of yarn into a cap from a cone, bobbin, etc.
• creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
• whaling — the work or industry of capturing and rendering whales; whale fishing.
• beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
• get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• accroach — to assume to oneself without right or authority; usurp.
• disciplined — having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
• malleate — to beat or shape with a hammer, as in metalworking.
• deal with — When you deal with something or someone that needs attention, you give your attention to them, and often solve a problem or make a decision concerning them.
• get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• outplay — to play better than.
• head up — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
• outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
• get the better of — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
• beat off — to drive back; repel
• carry off — If you carry something off, you do it successfully.
• do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• outrival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
• latch onto — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
• muscle in — a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
• lock up — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
• clean up — If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
• cudgeled — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
• conquer — If one country or group of people conquers another, they take complete control of their land.
• buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
• caned — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.