The meaning of Abdicate

verb

Cease to support or look after (someone); desert.

Usage examples:

Her natural mother had abandoned her at an early age

noun

Complete lack of inhibition or restraint.

Usage examples:

She sings and sways with total abandon

verb

Forsake; leave behind

verb

Solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim).

Usage examples:

Mps were urged to abjure their jacobite allegiance

verb

To say formally or publicly that you no longer agree with a belief or way of behaving

Usage examples:

He abjured his religion/his life of dissipation.

verb

Renounce or reject (something desired or valuable).

Usage examples:

He attempts to abnegate personal responsibility

verb

To not allow yourself to have something, especially something you like or want

Usage examples:

To abnegate responsibility/guilt

verb

Keep away from or stop oneself from doing (something).

Usage examples:

Avoid excessive exposure to the sun

phrasal verb

Remove oneself from an obligation

phrasal verb

To give up something, or to decide not to do something that you were considering doing

Usage examples:

He said he was bowing out of the race for senator.

phrasal verb

Throw or cast away

phrasal verb

To get rid of someone or something

Usage examples:

You must cast aside all thoughts of revenge., barriers to women in sport are being cast away.

verb

Refuse to acknowledge; deny.

Usage examples:

The school disclaimed any responsibility for his death

verb

To say you are not responsible for or do not know anything about something

Usage examples:

The officers disclaimed any knowledge of the incident.

verb

To state that you are not legally responsible for something

Usage examples:

Disclaim responsibility/liability for sth a restaurant may disclaim responsibility for loss or dama…

verb

Pour (something) out.

Usage examples:

The combine disgorged a steady stream of grain

verb

To pay back money that has been made illegally, especially after being ordered to by a court

Usage examples:

They were ordered to disgorge $1.85 million in profits made by fraudulent means.

verb

Refuse to acknowledge or maintain any connection with.

Usage examples:

Lovell's rich family had disowned him because of his marriage

verb

Go without (something desirable).

Usage examples:

She wanted to forgo the tea and leave while they could

verb

To give up or do without

Usage examples:

She decided to forgo flowers at the funeral and asked people to send money to a charity instead.

verb

Agree to give up or do without.

Usage examples:

The country has not forsworn nuclear weapons

verb

To make a serious decision to stop doing something

Usage examples:

To forswear all violence

phrasal verb

Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat

phrasal verb

To stop doing or to stop having something

Usage examples:

He gave up jogging after his heart attack., although behind in the chess match, he refused to give …

phrasal verb

To stop trying to do something before you have finished, usually because it is too difficult

Usage examples:

She has a struggle trying to persuade the board to accept her proposal, but she's determined not to…

phrasal verb

To surrender someone or something to another

phrasal verb

To give something to someone, esp. after being asked or told to do this

Usage examples:

Tighter sanctions will be sought unless the suspects are handed over by the end of february.

phrasal verb

To give someone else control of or responsibility for something

Usage examples:

To hand over control/power/responsibility, hand sth over to sb the founder handed the company over …

verb

Leave (a place), usually permanently.

Usage examples:

Hippies finally quit two sites in hampshire last night

adjective

Rid of.

Usage examples:

I want to be quit of him

noun

Used in names of various small songbirds found in the caribbean area, e.g. bananaquit, grassquit.

Usage examples:

The grassquit resides in small flocks and likes to use empty bananaquit nests for roosting at night.

verb

Indicate or show that one is not willing to do something.

Usage examples:

I refused to answer

noun

Matter thrown away or rejected as worthless; rubbish.

Usage examples:

Heaps of refuse

verb

Dismiss as inadequate, unacceptable, or faulty.

Usage examples:

Union negotiators rejected a 1.5 per cent pay award

noun

A person or thing dismissed as inadequate or unacceptable.

Usage examples:

Some of the team's rejects have gone on to prove themselves in championships

verb

To refuse to accept, use, or believe something or someone

Usage examples:

The school rejects a third of all applicants., as a child, she had felt rejected by her mother., in…

verb

Voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up.

Usage examples:

He relinquished his managerial role to become chief executive

verb

Formally declare one's abandonment of (a claim, right, or possession).

Usage examples:

Isabella offered to renounce her son's claim to the french crown

verb

To say publicly that you no longer own, support, believe in, or have a connection with something

Usage examples:

Gandhi renounced the use of violence.

verb

To say formally or publicly that you no longer own, support, believe in, or have a connection with something

Usage examples:

Her ex-husband renounced his claim to the family house., gandhi renounced the use of violence.

verb

Refuse to accept; reject.

Usage examples:

She has repudiated policies associated with previous party leaders

verb

To refuse to accept or obey something or someone; reject

Usage examples:

The evidence presented at the trial has since been repudiated., the election results were a repudia…

verb

To decide that an agreement is no longer effective and that you will not do what it says you must do

Usage examples:

Repudiate a contract/agreement failure to deliver on time will entitle the buyer to repudiate the c…

verb

Voluntarily leave a job or office.

Usage examples:

He resigned from the company in protest of the treatment of his co-workers

verb

Accept as inevitable

verb

Leave one's job and cease to work, typically on reaching the normal age for leaving service.

Usage examples:

He retired from the navy in 1986

noun

A movement in which one leg is raised at right angles to the body until the toe is in line with the knee of the supporting leg.

Usage examples:

The orchestra stopped, and she continued to stay on pointe; sometimes moving from retiré into a la …

verb

Reject with disdain or contempt.

Usage examples:

He spoke gruffly, as if afraid that his invitation would be spurned

noun

An act of spurning.

Usage examples:

It is a spurn of god's sovereignty, and a slight of his goodness

verb

Reject with contempt

phrasal verb

Withdraw or resign from a position or office.

Usage examples:

He stood down as leader of the party

phrasal verb

Relax after being ready or alert.

Usage examples:

No further action was required and all units stood down

phrasal verb

To leave your job or official position

Usage examples:

Stand down as sth he stood down as chairman last tuesday.

verb

Stop resisting to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority.

Usage examples:

Over 140 rebels surrendered to the authorities

noun

The action of surrendering to an opponent or powerful influence.

Usage examples:

The final surrender of germany on 8 may 1945

verb

Relinquish possession or control over

phrase

Take a downward direction

phrasal verb

Adjust a control on a device to reduce the volume or level.

Usage examples:

She turned the sound down

phrasal verb

Reject something offered or proposed.

Usage examples:

His novel was turned down by publisher after publisher

verb

Leave (a place that one previously occupied).

Usage examples:

Rooms must be vacated by noon on the last day of your holiday

verb

Leave behind empty; move out of

verb

To leave a place or position

Usage examples:

When he left the university, he had to vacate his university-provided housing.

verb

First and third person singular past of be.

verb

Exist.

Usage examples:

There are no easy answers

noun

A member of a hill people living on the borders of china and burma (myanmar).