Definitions for abdicate

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abdicate ab·di·cate

Spelling: [ab-di-keyt]

IPA: /ˈæb dɪˌkeɪt/

Abdicate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in abdicate (aabcdeit).

Definitions for abdicate

verb (used with object)

1. to give up or renounce (authority, duties, an office, etc.), especially in a voluntary, public, or formal manner:

verb (used without object)

1. to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner:

Origin of abdicate

1535-45; Latin abdicātus renounced (past participle of abdicāre), equivalent to ab- ab- + dicātus proclaimed (dic- (see dictum) + -ātus

Examples for abdicate

You'd not do it again; or, if you did, not get Nap to abdicate.

Juan Carlos is the second European monarch to abdicate in just over a year.

Whenever you like to rebel, I shall be just as ready to abdicate.

Much like the British monarchy, when the current Aga Khan is ready to abdicate his post, he will personally choose a successor.

In recent decades it has become the tradition for the monarch to abdicate.

He was opposed to any negotiations for peace, and threatened to abdicate.

"Royalties may not abdicate," fell as a warning from pretty lips.

A palace insider however insisted to the Daily Beast today that the Queen was not about to abdicate.

The man might abdicate; but the magistrate was irremoveable.

Here he held the famous council as to whether he should abdicate the Mexican throne or not.