RESIGNING Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

resigning

verb

present participle of resign

as in abdicating

to give up (as a position of authority) formally following the election, the incumbent cabinet members resigned their positions so the president could feel free to pick a new administration

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Recent Examples of resigning The previous investigations were stalled because Haitian judges kept resigning from the case, fearing for their lives, and gangs seized control of the downtown Port-au-Prince courthouse where the judges were interrogating suspects. — Evens Sanon, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026 In a memorandum sent to school board members Wednesday, Hill claimed board members tried to extort her into resigning. — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 18 Sep. 2026 The party could move to separate the office of chancellor from the CDU leadership role, which could then see Merz step down as his party's leader without automatically resigning as chancellor. — Anna Noryskiewicz, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026 Then Carl Icahn ran a proxy contest in the middle of all this that ousted the chairman in 2023 and led to CEO Francis deSouza resigning shortly after. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026 After Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon caused a stir by resigning with a grave warning about the technology's potential risks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei responded with an essay saying that the industry might need to slow the pace of its work. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 The company’s then-CEO and the chair’s younger brother, Fernando Zobel de Ayala, was resigning for health reasons, and the company needed a replacement. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026 After resigning in 2005 amid criticism and questions about Beijing’s influence, Tung remained a staunch supporter of China’s rule, backing security laws and earning national honors as Hong Kong’s freedoms narrowed. — Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Reilly's appointment follows a period of significant turnover, with three officials resigning this year and a fourth planning to step down. — Laura Colvin, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2026

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Despite everything, Harald never considered abdicating the throne.

— Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
This is what the impeachment process was designed for, to remove public officials abdicating their responsibilities.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of abdicating

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Eric Lai, a senior fellow with the Georgetown Center for Asian Law, said every actor in Hong Kong civil society who assumed that renouncing violence and working within the law would be fine has to revise that assumption.

— Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
That starts with renouncing the use of military intervention as a first resort and ending the practice of diplomacy by airstrike.

— MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026