abdicate
It was a shocking abdication of responsibility.
His abdication of presidential authority was observed with mounting concern.
She believes that the pursuit of consensus is the abdication of leadership.
It was an extraordinary time in Nepal, with the declaration of a democratic republic in May and the abdication of the king in June.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stop having or doing something
abdicate
bandh
bomb
bomb out
break with something
break with tradition
butt
forfeitable
forgo
forsake
forswear
give up
give up the ghostidiom
lay
self-denying
self-denyingly
self-renouncing
self-renunciation
self-sacrifice
throw

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Retiring & resigning

Examples of abdication

abdication
Yet these are precisely the kinds of reactions that promote abdication of control and hope on the part of those suffering from mental disorder.
The results could be abdication of personal responsibility and an undermining of traditional religious morality.
It is only by becoming an official of the state that such an abdication of responsibility is justifiable.
The very nation he had served now betrayed him; he wavered between revenge, abdication and denial.
The copious pleasures on offer there are too artificial, too flagrantly polymorphous to allow the subject his conventional abdication of the self.
The emergence of a culture of compromise should not be misinterpreted as an abdication of the role of congress as a comptroller of executive ambitions.
His abdication undermined the framework of military unity.
While this characterization may have been apt in some instances, intimidation rather than ideological orientation was responsible for many of the abdications.
In the case of total abdication this intersection would be empty.
His abdication is not therefore judged a failure.
By the same token, this may explain why abdication in favour of one of his sons was said finally to have commended itself to the king himself.
Medical training inculcates this belief and if physicians were to relinquish this power to patients, they would most likely believe this was an abdication of their professional responsibility.
Only if the panic had been great enough to cause an abdication, or at least some change of policy, would the perpetrators have felt able to boast of their tactics.
Its ethical open-endedness, the multiplicity of perspectives, voices, and judgments it offers, and its abdication of narrative authority, may all be construed as forms of resistance to narrative closure.
Wilkes may have had no serious expectation of forcing his king's abdication, yet he did create conditions that, had circumstances developed perfectly, might have led in that direction.
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