resign

Verb
  1. Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily (synset 202372031)
    "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"
    hypernym: leave office, quit, resign, step down - give up or retire from a position
    hyponym: abdicate, renounce - give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
    synonym: give up, renounce, vacate
  2. Give up or retire from a position (synset 202387509)
    "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"
    hypernym: depart, leave, pull up stakes - remove oneself from an association with or participation in
    hyponym:
    • 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
    synonym: leave office, quit, step down
  3. Part with a possession or right (synset 202321284)
    "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne"
    hypernym: give, hand, pass, pass on, reach, turn over - place into the hands or custody of
    hyponym:
    synonym: free, give up, release, relinquish
  4. Accept as inevitable (synset 200734417)
    "He resigned himself to his fate"
    hypernym: accept - consider or hold as true
    synonym: reconcile, submit

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