Crossword-Solution: ABDICATE 8 letters, 68 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Abdicate v. t. To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to
withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office,
station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.
Abdicate v. t. To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a
trust, duty, right, etc.
Abdicate v. t. To reject; to cast off.
Abdicate v. t. To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his
child; to disown; to disinherit.
Abdicate v. i. To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high
office or dignity.

We have 68 clues for the answer “ABDICATE”

Clue Answers
Renounce power 1 answer
Cede power 1 answer
Emulate Edward VIII 1 answer
Emulate Edward Windsor 1 answer
Fail to carry out a duty 1 answer
Give up the throne 1 answer
Give up voluntarily 1 answer
Quit, à la Edward 1 answer
Relinquish an office 1 answer
Relinquish one's power 1 answer
Relinquish power 1 answer
Relinquish the throne 1 answer
Renounce office 1 answer
Renounce responsibility. 1 answer
Resign a la Edward VIII 1 answer
Renounce the throne 1 answer
Walk away from, as responsibility 1 answer
GIVE up office 2 answers
Step down, in a way 2 answers
demit 7 answers
STEP down 10 answers
forego 11 answers
BAG IT 14 answers
throw away 20 answers
unsay 25 answers
Jettison 27 answers
resile 27 answers
BAIL out 27 answers
palinode 29 answers
apologise 30 answers
Countermand 32 answers
Abnegate 36 answers
rescind 36 answers
Retract 38 answers
Concede 39 answers
Waive 40 answers
revoke 42 answers
Forsake 42 answers
Recant 44 answers
redress 44 answers
Negate 45 answers
disclaim 46 answers
Relin-quish 46 answers
forswear 47 answers
Submit 47 answers
Abjure 47 answers
Disavow 49 answers
Re-nounce 49 answers
Resign 49 answers
Counteract 49 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ABDICATE (5)

After all, what had he to be ashamed of? For a moment he was on the point of making a clean breast of it, of crying out, “Dearest friends, I abdicate: I can’t help you!” But he checked himself; he felt so impatient to have his three words with Christina.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
Syn.Ð To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender; resign; abdicate; quit; relinquish; renounce; desert; forsake; leave; retire; withdraw from.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
Undoubtedly it would be better were man not compelled to change: but what! because he is born ignorant, because he exists only on condition of gradual self-instruction, must he abjure the light, abdicate his reason, and abandon himself to fortune? Perfect health is better than convalescence: should the sick man, therefore, refuse to be cured? Reform, reform! cried, ages since, John the Baptist and Jesus Christ.
What is Property? P. J. Proudhon 1995
When the people began to clamor and demand that he himself should abdicate, he became insane with rage, and committed such cruelties that the people ran mad themselves.
The Lost Prince Francis Hodgson Burnett 2004
May your Majesty never abdicate her throne, and may she ever count me her humble servant and devoted knight." "And now, sister," said Warwick, when Tryon had been driven away, "now that the masquerade is over, let us to sleep, and to-morrow take up the serious business of life.
The House Behind the Cedars Charles W. Chesnutt 1996

Quotes with ABDICATE (3)

But you won’t abdicate." Of course not. It’s my duty to go on, to maintain the line. I can’t possibly fail in that. It’s as if you and I were throwing a ball back and forth to establish a record, and had been doing so for a millennium. You cannot drop a ball that has remained airborne through good effort for most of a thousand years. You cannot stop an unlikely heart that has been beating for so long. I would rather die than betray continuity, for its own sake if for nothing …
Mark Helprin Freddy and Fredericka
A writer tears open their soul for you We lay bare our fears and woes for you We pour our heart onto the page for you We unleash our demons for you Letters like blood smear the page for you The world's pain we absorb for you A delicate path of sanity walked for you Only for you to -Crumple the page in disdain You will not abdicate your reign In the oblivion of life, you’ll remain As I continue to write for you
Theresa Jacobs
And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer us love and respect, without conflict and without resentment. It is the hardest lesson to learn that the goal of parenthood is not to reign forever but to abdicate gracefully at the right time.
Sydney J. Harris Best of Sydney Harris
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 16 times in crossword archives (1967–2013).