resign
Other forms: resigned; resigning; resigns
To resign is to quit or retire from a position. You can also resign yourself to something inevitable, like death — meaning you just accept that it's going to happen.
When people resign, they're leaving something, like a job or political office. Congressmen resign after a scandal. Coaches resign after a really terrible season. Regular folks simply resign when they're ready to go. In those cases, resign is a nicer way of saying quit. Being resigned is another sense of this word — it's a type of acceptance. If your team is losing 80-20, you might as well resign yourself to losing. That just means you aren't in denial.
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accept as inevitable
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leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
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give up or retire from a position“The chairman resigned over the financial scandal”synonyms: leave office, quit, step downtypes:retirego into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's positiontop outgive up one's career just as one becomes very successfulfalllose office or powersuperannuateretire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmitytype of:
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part with a possession or right
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