1. (v.t.)abdicate to give up or renounce (authority, duties, a high office, etc.), esp. in a voluntary, public, or formalmanner.
2. (v.i.)abdicate to renounce or relinquish a throne, office, right, power, claim, or responsibility, esp. in a formalmanner.
Etymology: (1535–45; < L abdicātus, ptp. of abdicāre to renounce =ab-ab - +dicāre to indicate, consecrate (see dedicate ))
Definition of 'abdicate'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (verb)abdicate, renounce give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
Definition of 'abdicate'
Webster Dictionary
1. (verb)abdicate 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
2. (verb)abdicate to renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc
Definitions of abdicate 
Afrikaans: abdikeer
Arabic: يَتَنَازَل عَن العَرْش
Bulgarian: абдикирам
Brazilian: abdicar
Czech: abdikovat
German: abdanken
Danish: abdicere; frasige sig tro
Greek: παραιτούμαι βασιλικού αξι
Spanish: abdicar
Estonian: troonist loobuma
Farsi: کناره گیری کردن
Finnish: abdikoida
French: abdiquer
Hebrew: לְווַתֵּר עַל כֵּס הַמְלו
Hindi: स्वेच्छा से छोड़ना
Croatian: abdicirati
Hungarian: lemond
Indonesian: turun tahta
Icelandic: afsala sér (völdum)
Italian: abdicare
Japanese: 退位する
Korean: 퇴위하다
Lithuanian: atsisakyti (sosto)
Latvian: atteikties (no troņa)
Malay: turun takhta
Dutch: aftreden
Norwegian: abdisere, si fra seg tron
Polish: abdykować
Persian: کناره گیری کردن
Pashto: ګوښه كيدل، پريښودل
Portuguese: abdicar
Romanian: a abdica
Russian: отрекаться
Slovak: abdikovať
Slovenian: odreči se prestolu
Serbian: abdicirati
Swedish: abdikera
Thai: สละราชสมบัติ
Turkish: tahttançekilmek
Taiwanese: 退位
Ukrainian: зрікатися
Urdu: تخت سےدست بردارہونا
Vietnamese: thoái vị
Chinese: 退位
