abdicate
abdicate
Definition
ab·di·cate (ab′di kāt′)
transitive verb, intransitive verb abdicated -·cat′ed, abdicating -·cat′·ing
- to give up formally (a high office, throne, authority, etc.)
- to surrender or repudiate (a right, responsibility, etc.)
Etymology: < L abdicatus, pp. of abdicare, to deny, renounce < ab-, off + dicare, to proclaim, akin to dicere, to say: see diction
abdicate
Synonyms
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Usage Examples
Object
- responsibility: We cannot abdicate the responsibility to deal with these acts in the correct manner.
- control: Will artists routinely compete for control or abdicate control in favor of a defined group esthetic?
Modifying Another Word
- not: But our people have opted for democracy as a way of life from which we will not abdicate.
- never: Courts must never abdicate their duty to protect citizens from the abuse of power by governments, a senior judge said last night.
Preposition: in
- favor: People have decided to ask the Tsar to abdicate in favor of his son.
- favor: He agreed to abdicate and retire to Medina 291 Hasan abdicates in favor of Mu'awiya, 21 iii.
Preposition: from
- responsibility: To abdicate from responsibility by doing nothing is to sin.
abdicate Quotes
Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.
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