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Word: abdicate
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Verb:
- intransitive To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
- transitive legal To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
- transitive obsolete To reject; to cast off. - Bishop Joseph Hall
- transitive To surrender, renounce 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.
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