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v. go away or leave

v. give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"

exit, close

v. to quit any application or software program

renounce, turn away from, relinquish, foreswear

v. turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"

stop, cease, discontinue, give up, lay off

v. put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"

leave, throw in, give up, throw in the towel, drop out, chuck up the sponge, admit defeat

v. give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"

clear, rid

adj. free from contact or proximity or connection; "we were clear of the danger"; "the ship was clear of the reef"

defect, desert

v. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"

abandon, give up

v. give up with the intent of never claiming again; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead"

break, stop, break off, discontinue

v. prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"

cancel, delete

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

leave, exit, go out, get out

v. move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country"

reject

v. refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"

surrender, relinquish

v. relinquish to the power of another; yield to the control of another

give up, resign, renounce, vacate

v. leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"

grant, yield, concede, cede

v. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

abjure, recant, forswear, retract

v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

surrender, deliver, give up, cede

v. relinquish possession or control over; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in"

refrain, abstain, desist, abstain from, desist from, refrain from

v. choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"

renounce, abdicate

v. give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"

renounce, repudiate

v. cast off or disown; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

refuse to acknowledge, disavow

v. refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children"

disinherit, disown

v. prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

lurch, abandon, desert, desolate, forsake

v. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

stop, halt, come to a halt, stop moving

v. come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"

stop, halt

v. cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"

break, stop, break off, discontinue

v. prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"

finish, end, stop, halt, cease, run out, terminate, come to an end, close over

v. bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

block, stop, halt, kibosh, put the kibosh on

v. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

bail

v. deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period

concede

v. acknowledge defeat; "The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose"

loose, unconfined, at liberty, unimprisoned, on the loose, at large

adj. free from confinement or physical restraint

at liberty, unconstrained

adj. free from constraint; "he was unconstrained by any of the sanctions of polite society"; "the dog was unconstrained"; "idle, unconstrained gossip"

independent, sovereign, autonomous, self-governing

adj. (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state"

uncommitted, available

adj. not busy; not otherwise committed; "he was not available for comment"; "he was available and willing to accompany her"

aweigh, atrip

adj. (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom

clear

adj. free from contact or proximity or connection; "we were clear of the danger"; "the ship was clear of the reef"

discharged, released

adj. set free as from prison or duty

disentangled, extricated, freed

adj. having become freed from entanglement; disengaged

liberated, emancipated

adj. free from traditional social restraints; "an emancipated young woman pursuing her career"; "a liberated lifestyle"

in the open, in the clear

adj. (sports) free of hindrance: "after eluding the tacklers he was in the clear"

out-of-school

adj. not attending school and therefore free to work; "opportunities for out-of-school youth"

unhampered, free of

adj. not held in check or subject to control; "unhampered dissemination of news"; "this would give black people the opportunity to live unhampered by racism"

unrestricted

adj. free of restrictions on conduct; "I had unrestricted access"

stay, remain behind

v. remain behind; "I had to stay at home and watch the children"

get, come, arrive

v. reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"

go, go away, depart, travel away

v. go away from a place; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight"

take office

v. assume an office, duty, or title; "When will the new President take office?"

claim, lay claim to, make a claim to

v. lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea"

swan, affirm, avow, swear, assert, aver

v. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"

hold, keep, maintain

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"

preserve, continue, bear on, carry on, uphold

v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"

run, persist, die hard, endure, prevail

v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"

enter, participate

v. become a participant; be involved in; "enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations"

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