Words that rhyme with relinquish

• anguish 0
  n 1: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment, torture] 2: extreme distress of body or mind v 1: suffer great pains or distress 2: cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school" [syn: pain, anguish, hurt]
• contradistinguish 0
  v 1: distinguish by contrasting qualities
• distinguish 0
  v 1: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" [syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart] 2: detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph" [syn: spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart] 3: be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him from his peers" [syn: distinguish, mark, differentiate] 4: make conspicuous or noteworthy [syn: signalize, signalise, distinguish] 5: identify as in botany or biology, for example [syn: identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name]
• extinguish 0
  v 1: put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children" [syn: snuff out, extinguish] 2: put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles" [syn: snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench] [ant: ignite, light] 3: extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar" [syn: stub out, crush out, extinguish, press out] 4: terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" [syn: extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with] 5: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off]
• languish 0
  v 1: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" [syn: pine away, waste, languish] 2: have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" [syn: ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish] 3: become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" [syn: languish, fade]
• vanquish 0
  v 1: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" [syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish]
• cuish 0
• unwish 0

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