Resign: alternatives and connections

To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicat…

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land…

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To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

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The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; t…

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To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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To part; to divide; to separate.

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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

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To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

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To retch.

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To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.

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The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.

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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

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To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to r…

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To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

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To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land…

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To let down; to lower.

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To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; t…

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