Definitions from Wiktionary (abdicate)

▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
▸ verb:  (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To depose.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.
▸ 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.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
▸ Also see abdicate




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