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Definitions of abdicate in various dictionaries:
verb - give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
To relinquish formally a high office or responsibility.
verb - to give up formally
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| This "A" word means to relinquish power or give up the throne |
| To renounce a throne, as Norodom Sihanouk did in 2004 |
| Give up the throne |
| Zut! On June 22, 1815, 4 days after Waterloo, Napoleon had to do this officially for the second time |
| To give up the throne |
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| give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations |
| To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally. |
| To relinquish formally a high office or responsibility. |
| Fail to fulfil or undertake (a responsibility or duty) |
| (of a monarch) renounce one's throne. |
| fail to fulfil or undertake (a responsibility or duty). |
| 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: |
| to stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of: |
| to give up a position as king, or to fail to take responsibility for something: |
| Pull away |
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Abdication is the act of formally relinquishing monarchical authority. Abdications have played various roles in the succession procedures of monarchies. While some cultures have viewed abdication as an extreme abandonment of duty, in other societies (such as pre-Meiji Restoration Japan), abdication was a regular event, and helped maintain stability during political succession. * Historically, abdications have either occurred by force (where the regent was forced to abdicate on pain of death or other severe consequences) or voluntarily. Some rulers are ruled to have abdicated in absentia, vacating the physical throne and thus their position of power, although these judgments were generally pronounced by successors with vested interest in seeing the throne abdicated, and often without or despite the direct input of the abdicating monarch. * Recently, due to the largely ceremonial nature of the regent in many constitutional monarchies, many monarchs have abdicated due to old age, such as the |