English-Spanish translations for abdicate

abdicarLa comunidad internacional no puede abdicar de su responsabilidad de proteger. The international community must not abdicate its responsibility to protect. Creo que Europa tiene un deber social en este aspecto, del cual no puede abdicar. I believe that in this area Europe has a social duty that it cannot abdicate. Una es de ellas es mala, a saber, la de adoptar una solución a corto plazo y reducir los impuestos y abdicar de nuestras responsabilidades gubernamentales. One is a bad choice and that is to adopt a short-term fix and cut taxes, abdicate our government responsibilities.

To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
To depose.
To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.

to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy
Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender

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