<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.</li><li>Synonyms: withdraw.</li><li>to submit; yield: to resign before the inevitable.</li><li>(used with object) to give up (an office, position, etc.), often formally.</li><li>Synonyms: leave, quit, abdicate, renounce.</li><li>to relinquish (a right, claim, agreement, etc.).</li><li>Synonyms: cede, surrender, forgo, give up.</li><li>to give or sign over, as to the control or care of another: She resigned her child to an adoption agency.</li><li>to submit (oneself, one's mind, etc.) without resistance.</li></ul>