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abdication
 [ab-di-key-shuhn] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relinquishment |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, demission, disavowal, disclaimer, quitclaim, renunciation, resignation, retirement, stepping down, surrender |
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| Main Entry: | renunciation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment, rejection |
| Synonyms: | abdication, abjuration, abnegation, abstention, cancellation, denial, disavowal, disclaimer, eschewal, eschewing, forbearing, forswearing, giving up, rebuff, refusal, relinquishment, remission, renouncement, repeal, repudiation, resignation, sacrifice, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-sacrifice, spurning, surrender, veto, waiver, yielding |
| Antonyms: | allowance, approval, condonement |
| Main Entry: | resignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relinquishment of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, abdication, departure, giving up, leaving, notice, quitting, renunciation, retirement, surrender, tendering, termination, vacating, withdrawal |
| Antonyms: | agreement, taking on |
Example Sentences
- Getting divorced had come to be regarded as an act of cowardice, a failure of character, an abdication of responsibility.
- He is interpreting your allowing him up there as abdication of your pack leader status and he is taking advantage of it.
- Yet rather than contrition, there is nothing but posturing and abdication of any responsibility.
| Main Entry: | surrender |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving up; resignation |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, abdication, acquiescence, appeasement, capitulation, cessation, dedition, delivery, giving way, relenting, relinquishment, renunciation, submission, succumbing, white flag, yielding |
| Antonyms: | fight, fighting, victory, win |
| Main Entry: | waiver |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving up; letting go |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, abdication, disclaimer, foregoing, postponement, refusal, rejection, relinquishment, remission, renunciation, reservation, resignation, setting aside, surrender, tabling |
| Notes: | waver is a verb meaning to vacillate or be indecisive; a waiver is a relinquishment of a claim, privilege, or right |
| Antonyms: | accept, claim, face |
| Main Entry: | withdrawal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | removal; retraction |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, abdication, abjuration, alienation, departure, disavowal, disclaimer, disengagement, egress, egression, exit, exiting, exodus, extraction, marooning, palinode, recall, recantation, relinquishment, repudiation, rescission, resignation, retirement, retreat, revocation, revulsion, secession |
| Antonyms: | remainder, stay |
| Main Entry: | lam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | escape |
| Synonyms: | AWOL, abdication, avoidance, beat*, bolt*, break, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, escapement, eschewal, evasion, evasiveness, extrication, fadeout, flight, freedom, getaway, hegira, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, runaround, shunning, sidestepping, slip*, spring, withdrawal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Escape. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; contingent subservience |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
escape, scape; avolation, elopement, flight; evasion (avoidance); retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close call; come off, impunity., [Means of escape] loophole (opening) [more]; path; refuse; vent, vent peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape., reprieve (deliverance); liberation. refugee (fugitive) [more].
-verbs
escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper belle, save one's bacon; weather the storm (safe); escape scot- free., elude, make off (avoid) [more];. march off (go away) [more]; give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to creep out of., disappear, vanish.
-adjectives
.escaping, escaped stolen away, fled.
-phrases
the bird has flown the coop.
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