abdicate

verb

(transitive) To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.

(intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.

(transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.

(transitive, obsolete) To depose.

(transitive, obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.

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Synonyms for abdicate

renouncev relinquishv cedev resignv abjurev abandonv forgov quitv vacatev forswearv surrendern retirev

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