Verb

(abdicat)

(obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.

(obsolete) To depose.

(obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.

(Bishop Hall)

To surrender, renounce 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; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.

Note:'' The word ''abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.

* (rfdate) :

The cross-bearers abdicated their service.

* (rfdate) :

He abdicates all right to be his own governor.

* (rfdate) :

The understanding abdicates its functions.

To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.

* (rfdate) :

Though a king may abdicate' for his own person, he cannot ' abdicate for the monarchy.

Verb

(conced)

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.

He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.

Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.

To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.

To admit to be true; to acknowledge.

To yield or make concession.

(sports) To have a goal or point scored against

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(cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.