Abdicate
Word | ABDICATE |
Character | 8 |
Hyphenation | ab di cate |
Pronunciations | /ˈæb.dɪˌkeɪt/ |
Definitions and meanings of "Abdicate"
What do we mean by abdicate?
To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally. intransitive verb
To relinquish formally a high office or responsibility. intransitive verb
To give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim, office, duties, dignity, authority, and the like, especially in a voluntary, public, or formal manner.
To discard; cast away; take leave of: as, to abdicate one's mental faculties. In civil law, to disclaim and expel from a family, as a child; disinherit during lifetime: with a personal subject, as father, parent.
To put away or expel; banish; renounce the authority of; dethrone; degrade.
Synonyms To resign, renounce, give up, quit, vacate, relinquish, lay down, abandon, desert. (See list under abandon, v.)
To renounce or give up something; abandon some claim; relinquish a right, power, or trust.
To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity. transitive verb
To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc. transitive verb
To reject; to cast off. transitive verb
To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit. transitive verb
To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity. intransitive verb
Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations verb
To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
To depose.
To reject; to cast off; to discard.
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.
To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
Synonyms and Antonyms for Abdicate
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