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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally.
  2. v. To relinquish formally a high office or responsibility.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim, office, duties, dignity, authority, and the like, especially in a voluntary, public, or formal manner.
  2. To discard; cast away; take leave of: as, to abdicate one's mental faculties. In civil law, to disclaim and expel from a family, as a child; disinherit during lifetime: with a personal subject, as father, parent.
  3. To put away or expel; banish; renounce the authority of; dethrone; degrade.
  4. Synonyms To resign, renounce, give up, quit, vacate, relinquish, lay down, abandon, desert. (See list under abandon, v.)
  5. To renounce or give up something; abandon some claim; relinquish a right, power, or trust.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity.
  2. v. To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.
  3. v. obsolete To reject; to cast off.
  4. v. (Civil Law) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
  5. v. To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

Etymologies

  1. Latin abdicāre, abdicāt-, to disclaim : ab-, away; see ab-1 + dicāre, to proclaim; see deik- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (15)

Words with the same meaning

  1. vacate
  2. desert
  3. relinquish
  1. forsake
  2. give up
  3. resign
  1. abandon
  2. quit
  3. renounce
  1. reject
  2. disown
  3. disinherit
  1. demit
  2. relent
  3. surrender

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. vacate
  1. give up
  1. resign
  1. renounce

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  2. Baudouin I
  3. Richard II
  1. Napoleon I
  2. Constantine I
  3. Mirza-Mahesh
  1. Mary Queen of Scots
  2. Mary Stuart
  3. Nicholas II
  1. resign

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