To assign back; return formally; give up; give back, as an office or a commission, to the person or authority that conferred it; hence, to surrender; relinquish; give over; renounce.To withdraw, as a claim; give up; abandon.To yield or give up in a confiding or trusting spirit; submit, particularly to Providence.To submit without resistance; yield; commit.To intrust; consign; commit to the care of.Synonyms To abandon, renounce, abdicate. Resign differs from the words compared under forsake in expressing primarily a formal and deliberate act, in being the ordinary word for giving up formally an elective office or an appointment, and in having similar figurative use.To submit one's self; yield; endure with resignation.To give up an office, commission, post, or the like.n. Resignation.To sign again.