resign
1. leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily (Freq. 9)
- She vacated the position when she got pregnant
- The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds
• Syn:
vacate, renounce, give up
• Derivationally related forms:
resignation, vacant (for: vacate)
• Hypernyms:
leave office, quit, step down
• Hyponyms:
abdicate, renounce
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s (for: vacate)
2. give up or retire from a position
- The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month
- The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
• Syn:
leave office, quit, step down
• Ant:
take office (for: leave office)
• Derivationally related forms:
resignation
• Hypernyms:
leave, depart, pull up stakes
• Hyponyms:
vacate, renounce, give up, retire, top out, fall
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
3. part with a possession or right
- I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest
- resign a claim to the throne
• Syn:
release, relinquish, free, give up
• Derivationally related forms:
relinquishment (for: relinquish), relinquishing (for: relinquish), release (for: release)
• Hypernyms:
pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give
• Hyponyms:
derequisition, sacrifice, give
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
4. accept as inevitable
- He resigned himself to his fate
• Syn:
reconcile, submit
• Derivationally related forms:
resignation
• Hypernyms:
accept
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
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