abdicate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
The King abdicated when he married a divorcee
Types & categories
- resign hypernym
Related & opposite
- forgoing derivation
- abdication derivation
- abdication derivation
- renouncement derivation
- abdicator derivation
- abdicable derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | forgoing |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | abdication |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | abdication |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | renouncement |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | abdicator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | abdicable |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | resign |