Dictionary of English - abdicate, abrogate, arrogate or derogate

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To abdicate is to renounce formally, especially a monarch the throne: Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry a divorcee; She abdicated her rights to a pension. To abrogate a law is to cancel or annul it: The old law on Sunday trading has been abrogated. To arrogate a thing is to claim it presumptuously or without right: He arrogated special privileges for the staff. To derogate a thing is to lessen or detract from it in some way: It would derogate from the park's attraction to compare it to a playground.

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