abdicate
verb
°To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, 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."
°(obsolete) To reject; to cast off. -.
synonyms: give up, relinquish, renounce, quit more» , vacate, surrender, relent, forsake, abandon, desert, resign