0 past simple and past participle of abdicate --
1 If a king or queen abdicates, he or she makes a formal statement that he or she no longer wants to be king or queen: --
King Edward VIII abdicated (the British throne) in 1936.
2 to stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of: --
She abdicated all responsibility for the project.
He has abdicated his responsibilities and he should resign.
Any government which fail to act in that capacity have abdicated a primary responsibility.
The company abdicated its responsibility by going into liquidation and trading under another name.
They have abdicated any further responsibility for the evolution of these arrangements.
They have abdicated their responsibility in the way in which they have sought to tackle these problems.
Has he abdicated all responsibility for public sector housing?
We realise that free public opinion has abdicated its position in this country.
If he abdicated from his position of wanting the compulsory powers, a great deal of the difficulty would go.
