Abdicate

Verb

 * 1)  To surrender, renounce 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)  To reject; to cast off.
 * 3)  To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
 * 4)  To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.

Adverbs for Abdicate
altruistically; willingly; voluntarily; dramatically; ignominiously; unaccountably; cravenly; enforcedly; pusillanimously; sub- missively; shrewdly; pliantly; tractably; passively.

Synonyms for Abdicate

 * give up, relinquish, renounce, quit, vacate, surrender, relent
 * forsake, abandon, desert, renounce, relent, repudiate
 * forsake, give up
 * relinquish, renounce, resign, quit, give up, vacate, relent

Antonyms for Abdicate
hold, maintain, retain, remain, claim, defend, assert.

Derived terms

 * abdicable
 * abdicant
 * abdicator

Related terms

 * abdication

Thesaurus
abandon, abjure, acknowledge defeat, be pensioned, be superannuated, cashier, cast, cease, cede, cry quits, demit, desist from, drop, forgo, forswear, give over, give up, hand over, have done with, jettison, lay down, leave, leave off, pension off, quit, reject, relinquish, renounce, renounce the throne, resign, retire, retire from office, scrap, shed, slough, stand aside, stand down, step aside, superannuate, surrender, throw away, throw out, throw up, vacate, waive, withdraw from, wrest, yield

Etymology
From abdicatus:, perfect passive participle of abdico:, formed from ab: + dico:, akin to dico:.

Pronunciation

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Translations

 * Bulgarian: отказвам се от
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 禪讓, 禅让,  退位, 退出
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: afstand doen (van)
 * Finnish: luopua
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: αποποιούμαι (apopee-oómay)


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: frasi seg
 * Nynorsk: fråseie seg
 * Novial: abdika
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 拒絕, 拒绝
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: hylätä
 * German: verweigern
 * Interlingua: abdicar
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: avvise
 * Nynorsk: avvise


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: отказываться
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: từ bỏ


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 辭職, 辞职
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: tehdä perinnöttömäksi
 * German: ausstoßen
 * Italian:


 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fornekte
 * Nynorsk: fornekte
 * Portuguese: deserdar
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: từ bỏ, bỏ


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 禪讓, 禅让,  退位, 退出
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: aftreden, troonsafstand doen, abdiceren
 * Finnish: luopua
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: παραιτούμαι (paretoómay)


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 退位する (taii suru)
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Novial: abdika
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: отрекаться (от престола)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: thoái vị, từ ngôi


 * : се одкажува (se odkažuva)
 * : vzdať sa (úradu), odstúpiť, zriecť sa

Verb form
abdicate


 * 1) second-person plural present tense of abdicare
 * 2) second-person plural imperative of abdicare