Abdicates

verb

1. To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
2. To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
3. To depose.
4. To reject; to cast off; to discard.
5. To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.

   "Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender."