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disown; abdicate; give up; waive; renounce; resign; forgo (чего-либо); declare off; abnegate; back down; yield up; cry off (сделки, предложения); fall out of (привычки и т.п.); choose not to (AD Alexander Demidov); stay off (чего-либо sonicbarrier); back away (чего-либо); renege (verb intransitive ~ (on something) (formal) to break a promise, an agreement, etc. Syn: go back on Х to renege on a deal/debt/contract, etc. OALD Alexander Demidov); recede (своих слов, взглядов и т.п.); forswear (1) formal agree to give up or do without: the country has not forsworn nuclear weapons 2) (forswear oneself/be forsworn) archaic commit perjury; swear falsely. NOED Alexander Demidov); wean off (to make someone gradually stop depending on something that they like and have become used to, especially a drug or a bad habit We’re trying to wean ourselves off watching too much television. MED. US and Iranian gas may offer another way out, but until European countries are able to wean themselves off Russian gas, this will remain the case. BBC Alexander Demidov); get out of (Contrive to avoid or escape (a duty or responsibility): they wanted to get out of paying MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES Every time they think they've got out of the contract, they get pulled back in again. I don't remember what I said, but I made some excuse to get out of going. We went into business together once, but it didn't work out the way we hoped and we got out of it. OD Alexander Demidov); rule out (The ruby laser must be ruled out for fusion purposes. Alexander Demidov); dismiss (Here, the engineer should discard (or rid himself of, or abandon, or give up, or dismiss) many old concepts. Zimmerman Alexander Demidov); discontinue (This practice has long been discontinued. Zimmerman Alexander Demidov); surrender (чего-л.); reject; eliminate (we've eliminated all fees and commissions sankozh); refuse; walk back (своих слов, своей позиции и т. п.); dispensing with (MichaelBurov); dispense with (MichaelBurov); fall back; forego (чего-л.); relinquish; repudiate (чего-л.); shrink (чего-л.) |
