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 Inquest opens into death of 41-year-old former Cambridge sociology professor Jason Arday, found dead in south London days after resigning amid scrutiny of his record and credentials. — Pan Pylas, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 Republican Christine Moore served nearly 8 years in the seat before resigning her term early to unsuccessfully run for Apopka Mayor. — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026 Arday, once hailed as Cambridge’s youngest Black professor, was found dead, aged 41, in London last Friday, days after resigning from his post. — Reuters, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2026 Continue reading … TAKING A STAND — Ex-Seattle Times columnist explains resigning on the spot over spiked column. — FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026 After resigning from office, Sasse was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer, for which there is no cure. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026 Epidemiologist Dan Jernigan oversaw that CDC lab until resigning last summer as head of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases in protest of agency head Susan Monarez's firing. — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 20 Aug. 2026 Lawmakers across party lines facing ethics probes Misconduct accusations over the past few months have triggered a slew of ethics investigations, campaign suspensions and even prompted some lawmakers to take the rare step of resigning from Congress. — Emily R. Condon, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026 But despite resigning less than six months ago, Cherfilus-McCormick is running again this year. — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026

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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
They’d be upset about Article One of the Constitution, the legislative branch abdicating its powers; that is, the people’s power to wage war and to levy tariffs.

— KEN BURNS, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026

Definition of abdicating

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America is the ultimate answer to the pogrom, and to the emancipation Europe offered on the condition of relinquishing Jewish ethnic and cultural distinctiveness.

— Rory Lancman, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026
Giudice survived prison, divorce and years of family warfare without relinquishing her place at the center of New Jersey.

— Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of relinquishing

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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