Roget's Thesaurus

#757. Resignation

Nouns

resignation, retirement, abdication, renunciation, abjuration; abandonment, relinquishment.

Verbs

resign; give up, throw up; lay down, throw up the cards, wash one's hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retract; deny etc. 536. abrogate etc. 756; desert etc. (relinquish) 624; get rid of etc. 782. abdicate; vacate, vacate one's seat; accept the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds; retire; tender one's resignation.

Adjectives

abdicant.

Phrases

Othello's occupation's gone [Othello].