giving up



abjuration, capitulation, cession, dispensation, disposal, disposition, letting go, recantation, recession, release, relinquishment, renunciation, resignation, retraction, retreat,

   mental derangement - aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, daftness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, furore, insanity, irrationality, lunacy, madness, mania,

   treasury of information - bibliography, cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, literature, lore, material ,

   teem - abound, abound with, be alive with, be fruitful, be productive, bristle, bristle with, burst with, bustle, clutter, cram, crawl, crawl with, creep with, crowd,

   capstone - acme, apex, apogee, climax, crescendo, crown, final stroke, finisher, frieze, noon, peak, stone, summit, topping, zenith ,

   place itself - come together, crystallize, draw up, fall in, form, gather around, rally round, shape up, take shape ,

   clatter about - chatter, clack, clatter, rattle ,

   duplex telegraphy - Teletype, code, electricity, key, news ticker, receiver, sounder, telegraphy, telex, ticker, transmitter, wire service ,

   light of heel - agile, breakneck, dashing, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, flying, galloping, hasty, headlong, lively, mercurial, nimble, precipitate,

   look up to - accord respect to, admire, adore, appreciate, defer to, deify, entertain respect for, esteem, exalt, favour, hero-worship, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honour, idolize,

   pen in - beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bound, box in, cage, close in, compass, contain, coop, cordon, corral, encircle, enclose,