HOW TO PRONOUNCE
abdicate
/ˈæbdəˌkeɪt/
Press play to hear how to pronounce abdicate.
American Pronunciation Guide · 1:05
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does abdicate mean?
verb
- To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
- To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
More meanings (4)
verb
- (obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
- (obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
- (obsolete) To depose.
- (obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/ˈæbdəˌkeɪt/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
To ignore the directive influence of this present environment upon the young is simply to abdicate the educational function.
As you are both Republicans, and hold kings in detestation, of course you'll abdicate at once.
More book examples (3)
But the bourgeois of the epoch of la Minerve estimated so highly that poor de, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it.
An elderly chief will sometimes voluntarily abdicate in favour of a son.
In that sad half-hour among the Italian olives there had been such a fierce sincerity in his tone, that Rowland began to abdicate the critical attitude.