abdicate

verbB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

abdicates

V_ing/Gerund

abdicating

V_ed/pp

abdicated

1.
(obsolete, transitive)To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
2.
(obsolete, reflexive, transitive)To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
3.
(obsolete, transitive)To depose.
4.
(obsolete, transitive)To reject; to cast off; to discard.
5.
(transitive)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.
6.
(intransitive)To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

abandon abjurecast asidecast offcede desert disinherit disown forego forsakegive upquit refuse reject relent relinquish renounce repudiate resign retire

Trái nghĩa

claim grasp maintain occupy retain seize usurp

Cùng gốc / liên quan

abdicativeunabdicateabdicableabdicantabdicationabdicator

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Nguồn gốc từ

1532; Latin abdicātus (renounced), perfect passive participle of abdicō (to renounce, reject, disclaim) (see -ate), formed from ab (away) + dicō (proclaim, dedicate, declare), akin to dīcō (to say). Compare abdicat.