resign

Verb

resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)

1. (transitive) To give up; to relinquish ownership of.
   • And if the perfection of well-speaking might bring any glorie sutable unto a great personage, Scipio and Lelius would never have resigned the honour of their Comedies[…]unto an Affrican servant[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 39, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
2. (transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
3. (intransitive, transitive) To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status.
   • I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.
   • He resigned the crown to follow his heart.

   Synonyms:

   vacate

4. (transitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
   • He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion.
   • Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recrimination. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? Do you know what...1996, Robin Buss, The Count of Monte Cristo, translation of, Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 2003 Penguin edition, page 394 http://books.google.com/books?id=QAa5l_8DNbcC&pg=PA394&dq=fate