Resign

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To submit (oneself) passively; accept as inevitable: I resigned myself to a long wait in line.
  • v. To give up (a position, for example), especially by formal notification.
  • v. To relinquish (a privilege, right, or claim). See Synonyms at relinquish.
  • verb-intransitive. To give up one's job or office; quit, especially by formal notification: resign from a board of directors.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Alternative spelling of re-sign.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively.
  • v. To relinquish; to abandon.
  • v. To commit to the care of; to consign.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
  • v. give up or retire from a position
  • v. part with a possession or right
  • v. accept as inevitable
  • Verb Form
    resigned    resigning    resigns   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    accept   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    surrender    yield    submit    relinquish    abandon    consign    abdicate    quit   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aline    Cline    Combine    Dine    Heine    Jain    Klein    Kline    Quine    Rhine   
    Same Context
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