Dictionary entry details
• RESIGN (verb)
Meaning:
Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
vacate; resign; renounce; give up
Context examples:
She vacated the position when she got pregnant / The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds
Hypernyms (to "resign" is one way to...):
leave office; quit; resign; step down (give up or retire from a position)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resign"):
abdicate; renounce (give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Give up or retire from a position
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
leave office; step down; quit; resign
Context examples:
The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month / The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
Hypernyms (to "resign" is one way to...):
depart; leave; pull up stakes (remove oneself from an association with or participation in)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resign"):
give up; renounce; resign; vacate (leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily)
retire (go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position)
top out (give up one's career just as one becomes very successful)
fall (lose office or power)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Part with a possession or right
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
relinquish; resign; give up; release; free
Context examples:
I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest / resign a claim to the throne
Hypernyms (to "resign" is one way to...):
give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over (place into the hands or custody of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resign"):
derequisition (release from government control)
give; sacrifice (endure the loss of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Meaning:
Accept as inevitable
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
reconcile; resign; submit
Context example:
He resigned himself to his fate
Hypernyms (to "resign" is one way to...):
accept (consider or hold as true)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
