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abdicate
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abdicate as in:  abdicated the throne

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Prince Edward abdicated the British throne to marry the American.
abdicated = formally gave up power
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    In 1917, Nicholas II abdicated both for himself and on behalf of his son, ending the Russian monarchy and over 300 years of Romanov rule.
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    "Royalties may not abdicate," fell as a warning from pretty lips.†  (source)
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    "Abdicate!" replied Anna with a laugh. "Certainly not, Your Highness."  (source)
    Abdicate = formally give up royal title and power
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    I would rather abdicate my post and grant you command of the Varden than allow such a thing to occur.  (source)
    abdicate = formally give up
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    King Edward abdicated in that year; he chose love over ambition.  (source)
    abdicated = formally gave up power and title
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    There was in this voluntary abdication of his freewill, in this fancy submitting itself to another fancy, which suspects it not, a mixture of fantastic independence and blind obedience, something indescribable, intermediate between slavery and liberty, which pleased Gringoire,—a spirit essentially compound, undecided, and complex, holding the extremities of all extremes, incessantly suspended between all human propensities, and neutralizing one by the other.  (source)
    abdication = giving up power
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    "But, Sire," interrupted Drinian, "are you abdicating?"  (source)
    abdicating = formally giving up power
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    Upon earth, in the midst of the darkest night, light never abdicates its functions altogether.†  (source)
    abdicates = formally gives up power, as of monarchs and emperors
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    If elected, I shall abdicate.  (source)
    abdicate = formally give up power
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    In 1949, two years after the creation of Pakistan, he abdicated in favor of his elder son, Miangul Abdul Haq Jehanzeb.  (source)
    abdicated = formally gave up power
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    A complete abdication, you know?†  (source)
    abdication = the act of formally giving up power, as of monarchs and emperors
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    Abdicating his titles, he retired to a monastery where he surrounded himself with hundreds of clocks.  (source)
    Abdicating = formally giving up
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    If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence-by his own choice.†  (source)
    abdicates = formally gives up power, as of monarchs and emperors
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abdicate as in:  abdicated responsibility

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You can delegate, but you can't abdicate ultimate responsibility.
abdicate = ignore
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    The mayor complained that the police had abdicated their responsibility to protect the public.
    abdicated = ignored
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    But I am still her father. What would you have me do? Abdicate my responsibilities?  (source)
    Abdicate = ignore
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    "I think the Pakistan government is basically abdicating to the Taliban and the extremists," said Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State.  (source)
    abdicating = surrendering duties and obligations
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    I felt she was in some way betraying me — that she was shirking her duties, that she'd abdicated.  (source)
    abdicated = ignored obligations
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    Don't abdicate your good sense.  (source)
    abdicate = ignore
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    At worst, his absence seemed an arrogant abdication of responsibility.  (source)
    abdication = disregard
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Part of his brain told him that he knew perfectly well what he was looking at and what the shapes represented while another quite sensibly refused to countenance the idea and abdicated responsibility for any further thinking in that direction.  (source)
    abdicated = ignored
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    The Lunar Authority cannot abdicate its sacred responsibility.  (source)
    abdicate = ignore
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    Given what unfolded over the hours that followed the ease with which I abdicated responsibility-my utter failure to consider that Andy might have been in serious trouble-was a lapse that's likely to haunt me for the rest of my life.  (source)
    abdicated = ignored
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    They have abdicated and left him to Mrs. Greta Shaw, to nannies, to a tutor in the summer and The School (which is Private and Nice, and most of all, White) the rest of the time.  (source)
    abdicated = ignored responsibilities
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    He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.  (source)
    abdicated = ignored duties (of)
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    When Massachusetts Federalists denounced John Quincy as no longer one of the party, Adams wrote to him to say he wished they would denounce him the same way, for he had long since "abdicated and disclaimed the name and character and attributes of that sect, as it now appears."  (source)
    abdicated = ignored duties or obligations
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