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re⋅sign

  [ri-zahyn]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to give up an office or position, often formally (often fol. by from): to resign from the presidency.
2. to submit; yield: to resign before the inevitable.
–verb (used with object)
3. to give up (an office, position, etc.), often formally.
4. to relinquish (a right, claim, agreement, etc.).
5. to give or sign over, as to the control or care of another: She resigned her child to an adoption agency.
6. to submit (oneself, one's mind, etc.) without resistance.
Origin:
1325–75; ME resignen < MF resigner < L resignāre to open, release, cancel, equiv. to re- re- + signāre to mark, seal, sign

Synonyms:
1. withdraw. 3. abdicate, renounce; quit, leave. 4. give up, surrender, cede, forgo.
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Word Origin & History

resign 
c.1374, from O.Fr. resigner, from L. resignare "to check off, cancel, give up," from re- "opposite" + signare "to make an entry in an account book," lit. "to mark" (see sign). The sense is of making an entry (signum) "opposite" -- on the credit side -- balancing the former mark and thus canceling the claim it represents. The meaning of "give up a position" is first recorded 1387. Sense of "to give (oneself) up to some emotion or situation" is from 1718.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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