Meaning of ABDICATE in English

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Meaning of ABDICATE in English

• 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.
• To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.
• To reject; to cast off.
• To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
• To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.

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