Abdicate

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1. Verb

To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

2. Verb

To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.

3. Verb

To reject; to cast off.

4. Verb

To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

5. Verb

To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.
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