(obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child. / The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. / The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power.

(obsolete) A person supporting the abdication of another. / One who abdicates.

An inhabitant or native of Abdera, in Thrace. / (‘the Abderite’) Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

(transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.

Leading away; a carrying away. / (anatomy) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

(obsolete) The fat surrounding the belly.

An ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece, known for the foolishness of its inhabitants. / A modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece.

simple past tense and past participle of abdicate

Alternative form of Abd Allah

present participle of abdicate