abdicate
/ˈæb.dɪˌkeɪt/ verb C2- To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for. · to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy· Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.
- To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
He/she/it abdicates · Past abdicated · Past participle abdicated · -ing form abdicating
Verb forms
- Base form
- abdicate
- He/she/it
- abdicates
- Past
- abdicated
- Past participle
- abdicated
- -ing form
- abdicating
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