RESIGN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resign mean? 

• RESIGN (verb)
  The verb RESIGN has 4 senses:

1. leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily

2. give up or retire from a position

3. part with a possession or right

4. accept as inevitable

  Familiarity information: RESIGN used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESIGN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they resign    ... he / she / it resigns   
Past simple: resigned   
Past participle: resigned   
-ing form: resigning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

give up; renounce; resign; vacate

Context example:

The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds

Hypernyms (to "resign" is one way to...):

leave office; quit; resign; step down (give up or retire from a position)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resign"):

abdicate; renounce (give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

resignation (the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give up or retire from a position

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

leave office; quit; resign; step down

Context example:

The chairman resigned over the financial scandal

Hypernyms (to "resign" is one way to...):

depart; leave; pull up stakes (remove oneself from an association with or participation in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resign"):

give up; renounce; resign; vacate (leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily)

retire (go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position)

top out (give up one's career just as one becomes very successful)

fall (lose office or power)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

resignation (a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign)

resignation (the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Part with a possession or right

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

free; give up; release; relinquish; resign

Context example:

resign a claim to the throne

Hypernyms (to "resign" is one way to...):

give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over (place into the hands or custody of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resign"):

derequisition (release from government control)

give; sacrifice (endure the loss of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Accept as inevitable

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

reconcile; resign; submit

Context example:

He resigned himself to his fate

Hypernyms (to "resign" is one way to...):

accept (consider or hold as true)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

resignation (acceptance of despair)

 Context examples 

He was so peaceful and resigned—clearly had his affairs in such perfect train, and so systematically wound up—that he was a man to feel touched in the contemplation of.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her secret was still her own; and while that was the case, she thought she could resign herself to almost everything.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Dark rumours gathered round him in the university town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and to come down to London, where he set up as an Army coach.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He does not care for that: when my time came to die, he would resign me, in all serenity and sanctity, to the God who gave me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Without haste, with the air of one resigned to misfortune Bill turned his head, and from where he sat counted the dogs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Not only had we resigned ourselves to the bitter winter, but we were prepared for it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And Jo resigned herself with a sigh.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In vain did Elizabeth attempt to make her reasonable, and Jane to make her resigned.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Otherwise I would ask you to let me resign.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I resigned the belt when I could get no one to fight me for it, and I took to teaching.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)