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uk/ˈæb.dɪ.keɪt/us/ˈæb.də.keɪt/abdicate verb (KING/QUEEN)
[ I or T ] If a king or queen abdicates, he or she makes a formal statement that he or she no longer wants to be king or queen:
King Edward VIII abdicated (the British throne) in 1936.
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Retiring & resigning
- attrition
- bow 1
- bow out
- chuck
- chuck sth in
- demit
- departure
- drop
- leave the field open for sb idiom
- natural wastage
- outgoing
- pension sb off
- pensionable
- serve
- serve sth out
- stand aside
- stand down
- step
- step aside/down
- throw
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Stop having or doing something
abdicate verb (NOT DO)
abdicate responsibility formal disapproving
to stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of:
She abdicated all responsibility for the project.
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Stop having or doing something
- bail out
- bandh
- break with sth
- butt out
- cede
- chuck sth in
- drop
- fly
- ghost
- give (sth) up
- give sb up
- give sth up as a bad job idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- give up sth
- grow
- subjugate
- take a back seat idiom
- throw (sth) up
- throw in the towel idiom 1
- towel
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abdication
noun [ U ] uk/ˌæb.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
The council denied that their decision represented any abdication of responsibility.