resigning

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.

   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.