abdicate

/'æbdikeit/

📖 中文释义

过去式 abdicated过去分词 abdicated现在分词 abdicating第三人称单数 abdicates复数 abdicates

Foreign ministries around the world should be equally nervous. Unless the US can get its fiscal house in order, it will be forced to abdicate leadership on a wide range of critical global issues.
Instead of contributing to such a program, they abdicated too easily to market fundamentalism and bought in to its central tenets. Worse still, they led the hyper-globalization movement at crucial junctures.
Instead, Indian media today report recklessly on ephemera that have no impact on public welfare, and focus constantly on the superficial and the sensational. In doing so, they trivialize public discourse and abdicate their responsibilities as facilitators and protectors of democracy.

📘 English Definition（英文释义）

v. give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations