meaning of abdicate
1. 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. To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.
3. To reject; to cast off.
4. To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
5. To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.
6. give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a
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