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Voynich Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Give up vs relinquish

Are there any differences between "give up" and "relinquish"? For example, "The country gave up nuclear weapons" and "The country relinquished nuclear weapons". Thank you in advance!
  

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voynich Are there any differences between "give up" and "relinquish"? The obvious is that the first is informal while the second is formal; other than that, there are no doubt occasional collocations that favour one or the other. For example.

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  • voynich Are there any differences between "give up" and "relinquish"?
  • The obvious is that the first is informal while the second is formal; other than that, there are no doubt occasional collocations that favour one or the other.
  • For example.
  • we do not 'relinquish smoking'.
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voynichAre there any differences between "give up" and "relinquish"?
The obvious is that the first is informal while the second is formal; other than that, there are no doubt occasional collocations that favour one or the other. For example. we do not 'relinquish smoking'.
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There are many similarities in meaning, but here is how I usually interpret these phrases.

give up stop using something or stop doing something
eg She gave up chocolate eg He gave up swimming.
This is a very common verb.
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