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abdicate - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'abdicate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Abdicate [ v. i.]
- To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.
2 . Abdicate [ v. t.]
- 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.
- To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.
- To reject; to cast off.
- To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

Meaning of 'abdicate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . abdicate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
Example in sentence:
  • The King abdicated when he married a divorcee

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