1) Cede power 2) Emulate edward viii 3) Emulate Edward Windsor 4) Formally renounce 5) Give up 6) Give up the throne 7) Give up voluntarily 8) Relinquish 9) Relinquish an office 10) Relinquish power 11) Renounce 12) Renounce responsibility 13) Renounce the throne 14) Resign 15) Resign a la Edward VIII
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• (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 ...
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[Verb] To give up being a king or queen.
Example: The public was sad when the King abdicated.
See also: abdication
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Ab'di·cate intransitive verb To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity. « Though a king may
abdicate for his own person, he cannot
abdicate for the monarchy.
Burke. »
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Ab'di·cate transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Abdicated ;
present participle & verbal noun Abdicating .] [ Latin
abdicatus , past participle of
abdicare ;
ab +
dicare to proclaim, akin to
dice...Found on
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Abdicate means to renounce one's thrown.
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[
v] - give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
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abdicate 1. To proclaim or declare to be no longer one's own, to disclaim, disown, cast off; especially, to disown or disinherit children. Now only as a technical term of Roman Law (Latin abdicare filium, also abdicare patrem). 2. To formally give up (a right, trust, office, or dignity); to renounce, lay down, surrender, abandon; at first implying ...
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verb 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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