resign

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To submit (oneself) passively; accept as inevitable: I resigned myself to a long wait in line.
2. v. To give up (a position, for example), especially by formal notification.
3. v. To relinquish (a privilege, right, or claim). See Synonyms at relinquish.
4. v. To give up one's job or office; quit, especially by formal notification: resign from a board of directors.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To assign back; return formally; give up; give back, as an office or a commission, to the person or authority that conferred it; hence, to surrender; relinquish; give over; renounce.
2. To withdraw, as a claim; give up; abandon.
3. To yield or give up in a confiding or trusting spirit; submit, particularly to Providence.
4. To submit without resistance; yield; commit.
5. To intrust; consign; commit to the care of.
6. Synonyms To abandon, renounce, abdicate. Resign differs from the words compared under forsake in expressing primarily a formal and deliberate act, in being the ordinary word for giving up formally an elective office or an appointment, and in having similar figurative use.
7. To submit one's self; yield; endure with resignation.
8. To give up an office, commission, post, or the like.
9. n. Resignation.
10. To sign again.

Wiktionary

1. v. proscribed alternative spelling of re-sign.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively.
2. v. To relinquish; to abandon.
3. v. obsolete To commit to the care of; to consign.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
2. v. give up or retire from a position
3. v. part with a possession or right
4. v. accept as inevitable