abdicate

abdicate has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

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