abdicate
/AE1 B D AH0 K EY0 T/verb
- 1
To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
- 2
To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
- 3
To depose.
- 4
To reject; to cast off; to discard.
- 5
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.
“Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.”
- 6
To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
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