abdicating
Definitions
Renouncing or relinquishing a throne, high office, dignity, or function.
Failing to fulfill or undertake a responsibility or duty.
Examples
The king was accused of abdicating his responsibilities during the national crisis.
By abdicating her position as CEO, she hoped to spend more time with her family.
Synonyms
relinquishing renouncing resigning surrendering yielding quitting forgoing
Antonyms
assuming claiming retaining seizing accepting maintaining usurping