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Meaning of abdico | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
[abˈdiː.koː]

Definitions

  1. to be against, disapprove of, reject, refuse, deny, forbid, disallow, condemn
    conjugation-3, rare
  2. to deny, refuse to acknowledge, reject, repudiate, decline
    conjugation-1, rare
  3. to take away by sentence, withhold a right
    conjugation-3, rare
  4. to resign, abdicate
    conjugation-1, rare
  5. to abolish, renounce
    conjugation-1, rare
  6. to disinherit, disown
    conjugation-1, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“Itaque sue inventā ad merīdiem spectāns in vīneā mediā dīcitur cōnstitisse, cumque in quattuor partīs vīneam dīvīsisset trīsque partīs avēs abdīxissent, quārtā parte, quae erat relīqua, in regiōnēs distribūta, mīrābilī magnitūdine ūvam, ut scriptum vidēmus, invēnit.”

So, with the sow found, he is said to have stood in the middle of the vinyard looking south, and when he divided the vinyard into four parts the birds refused three parts, and with the fourth part, which was remaining, divided into regions, he found, as we find written, a bunch of grapes of extraordinary size.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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