Dictionary Entry
abdicate
abdicate is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.
- 3transitive verb
To reject; to cast off.
- 4transitive verb
To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
- 5intransitive verb
To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.
- 6verb
give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
"The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
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