Definitions
1.VerbTo disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2.VerbTo formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
3.VerbTo depose.
4.VerbTo reject; to cast off; to discard.
5.VerbTo surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for."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."
6.VerbTo relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.