English-Spanish translations for step down

dimitirEl Presidente Mubarak debe dimitir de forma inmediata. President Mubarak must step down now. Mugabe debería recordar su promesa de dimitir y hacerlo ahora. Mugabe should remember his promise to step down and do so now. En cualquier Estado miembro de la UE, el gobernador habría tenido que dimitir. In any EU Member State, a governor would have had to step down for that.
renunciarEl señor Lamassoure dijo ayer que desea renunciar a su cargo. Mr Lamassoure yesterday said that he was willing to step down from office. El mismo Dalái Lama admitió la realidad de la situación al amenazar entonces con renunciar a su condición de dios viviente. The Dalai Lama himself recognised the reality of the situation when he threatened at the time to step down as a living god. Mi colega, el señor Vanhecke, es objeto de una verdadera caza de brujas en Bélgica, cuyo único objetivo es condenarle y obligarle a renunciar a la escena política. My colleague, Mr Vanhecke, is the target of a veritable witch-hunt in Belgium, the sole aim of which is to condemn him and force him to step down from the political stage.

To resign from office; to abdicate
To gradually reduce something, a little at a time, as an electronic ''step down transformer.''

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