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Resign   /rɪzˈaɪn/  /rizˈaɪn/  /risˈaɪn/   Listen
Resign

verb
(past & past part. resigned; pres. part. resigning)
1.
Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily.  Synonyms: give up, renounce, vacate.  "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"
2.
Give up or retire from a position.  Synonyms: leave office, quit, step down.  "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"  Antonym: take office.
3.
Part with a possession or right.  Synonyms: free, give up, release, relinquish.  "Resign a claim to the throne"
4.
Accept as inevitable.  Synonyms: reconcile, submit.



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"Resign" Quotes from Famous Books



... sons of war, your houses; Heroic deeds for peace resign: Embrace your parents and your spouses, And all to whom your hearts incline: Behold your countrymen invite you, With open, arms, with open hearts; Here find whatever can delight you; Here friendship, love, ...
— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon

... herself. Would it not be best to resign herself to it, to close her eyes, and to await ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein

... and, as it was, Furbush had to nurse the steak in his lap. Mrs. Norris would have reached the picnicking ground in a procession of buggies, but at that Mary protested so vigorously that she was forced to resign. ...
— Tutors' Lane • Wilmarth Lewis

... to resign herself to the inevitable. "I hope you will, at least, tell me on whose behalf you acted," ...
— The Count's Millions - Volume 1 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau

... conscience—the greatest of God's blessings in this life, and requiring therefore of every man a care and diligence to preserve it, he, apprehending a danger of losing it, if he continued at Wibberton a second Winter, did therefore resign it back into the hands of his worthy kinsman and patron, about one year after his donation of it ...
— Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, - &C, Volume Two • Izaak Walton


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