vt to reject; to cast off.
2. abdicate ·vi to relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.
3. abdicate ·vt to renounce; to relinquish;
said of authority, a trust, duty, right, ·etc.
4. abdicate ·vt to disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
5. abdicate ·vt to surrender 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.