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verb

1. give up or retire from a position (Freq. 1)
- The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month
- The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
• Syn:
leave office, quit, resign
• Ant:
take office (for: leave office)
• Derivationally related forms:
resignation (for: resign)
• Hypernyms:
leave, depart, pull up stakes
• Hyponyms:
vacate, resign, renounce, give up, retire,
top out, fall
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something (for: resign)
2. reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of
- de-escalate a crisis
• Syn:
de-escalate, weaken
• Ant:
escalate (for: de-escalate)
• Derivationally related forms:
step-down, weakener (for: weaken), de-escalation (for: de-escalate)
• Hypernyms:
decrease, lessen, minify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something