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resignation
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a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign; "he submitted his resignation as of next month"
the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.)
acceptance of despair
related words >
Quakerism
,
abandonment
,
abdication
,
abeyance
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
acceptance
,
acclimation
,
acclimatization
,
acedia
,
acquiescence
,
adaptation
,
adjustment
,
aloofness
,
amenability
,
apathy
,
assent
,
ataraxia
,
ataraxy
,
benumbedness
,
blah
,
blahs
,
capitulation
,
cessation
,
cession
,
cold storage
,
comatoseness
,
comfort
,
complaisance
,
compliance
,
composure
,
conformity
,
consent
,
content
,
contentedness
,
contentment
,
deference
,
desistance
,
detachment
,
discontinuance
,
disinterest
,
dispassion
,
dispensation
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
dropping out
,
dullness
,
dumping
,
ease
,
entire satisfaction
,
euphoria
,
forbearance
,
forgoing
,
forswearing
,
fulfillment
,
getting rid of
,
giving up
,
handing over
,
happiness
,
heartlessness
,
hebetude
,
homage
,
hopelessness
,
humbleness
,
humility
,
inappetence
,
indifference
,
insouciance
,
kneeling
,
lack of appetite
,
languidness
,
lethargicalness
,
lethargy
,
letting go
,
listlessness
,
long-suffering
,
longanimity
,
lowliness
,
meekness
,
modesty
,
nonchalance
,
nonexercise
,
nonopposal
,
nonopposition
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolent resistance
,
notice
,
numbness
,
obedience
,
obeisance
,
passive resistance
,
passiveness
,
passivity
,
patientness
,
peace of mind
,
phlegm
,
phlegmaticalness
,
phlegmaticness
,
plucklessness
,
quietism
,
recantation
,
reconcilement
,
reconciliation
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
resignedness
,
retraction
,
riddance
,
sacrifice
,
satisfaction
,
sloth
,
sluggishness
,
sopor
,
soporifousness
,
spiritlessness
,
spunklessness
,
stupefaction
,
stupor
,
subjection
,
submission
,
submissiveness
,
submittal
,
supineness
,
surrender
,
suspension
,
swearing off
,
torpidity
,
torpidness
,
torpor
,
uncomplainingness
,
unconcern
,
waiver
,
well-being
,
withdrawing
,
withdrawnness
,
yielding
remission
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(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"
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abatement
,
abeyance
,
absolution
,
acquittal
,
acquittance
,
allayment
,
alleviation
,
amnesty
,
assuagement
,
attrition
,
blunting
,
break
,
caesura
,
calming
,
catabasis
,
cease-fire
,
clearance
,
clearing
,
collapse
,
compurgation
,
crash
,
curtailment
,
cut
,
cutting
,
damping
,
day off
,
deadening
,
deceleration
,
declension
,
decline
,
decline and fall
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
decrescendo
,
deliverance
,
demulsion
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
destigmatization
,
destigmatizing
,
detraction
,
diminuendo
,
diminution
,
dip
,
discharge
,
disculpation
,
dismissal
,
disparagement
,
dive
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
drop
,
dulcification
,
dulling
,
dwindling
,
easing
,
ebb
,
ebbing
,
exculpation
,
excuse
,
exemption
,
exoneration
,
extraction
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
forgiveness
,
grace
,
hesitation
,
holiday
,
hushing
,
immunity
,
impairment
,
indemnity
,
indulgence
,
interim
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
intermittence
,
interruption
,
interval
,
lapse
,
layoff
,
leniency
,
lessening
,
letdown
,
letup
,
lightening
,
loosening
,
lull
,
lulling
,
mitigation
,
modulation
,
mollification
,
pacification
,
palliation
,
pardon
,
pause
,
plunge
,
purgation
,
purging
,
quietening
,
quieting
,
quietus
,
quittance
,
recess
,
redemption
,
reduction
,
relaxation
,
release
,
remission of sin
,
reprieve
,
respite
,
rest
,
retraction
,
retreat
,
retrenchment
,
shortening
,
shrift
,
shrinkage
,
slackening
,
slowdown
,
slump
,
softening
,
soothing
,
sparing
,
stand-down
,
stay
,
subduement
,
subsidence
,
suspension
,
tempering
,
tranquilization
,
truce
,
truncation
,
vacation
,
verdict of acquittal
,
vindication
,
wane
disposal
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the act or means of getting rid of something
a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage
the power to use something or someone; "used all the resources at his disposal"
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abalienation
,
abandonment
,
abjuration
,
administration
,
alienation
,
allocation
,
allotment
,
amortization
,
amortizement
,
apportionment
,
arrangement
,
array
,
arraying
,
assignation
,
assignment
,
bargain and sale
,
barter
,
bequeathal
,
castaway
,
castoff
,
cession
,
chucking
,
clearance
,
collation
,
collocation
,
command function
,
concord
,
conferment
,
conferral
,
consignation
,
consignment
,
constitution
,
conveyance
,
conveyancing
,
decision-making
,
deeding
,
deep six
,
deliverance
,
delivery
,
demise
,
demolishing
,
demolition
,
deployment
,
deportation
,
destroying
,
destruction
,
detachment
,
disbursal
,
disbursement
,
discard
,
discarding
,
disjunction
,
dispensation
,
dispersion
,
disposition
,
distribution
,
dole
,
doling
,
doling out
,
dumping
,
ejection
,
elimination
,
enfeoffment
,
eradication
,
exchange
,
executive function
,
exile
,
expatriation
,
expulsion
,
forgoing
,
form
,
formation
,
formulation
,
forswearing
,
getting rid of
,
giving
,
giving out
,
giving up
,
harmony
,
issuance
,
jettison
,
junking
,
layout
,
lease and release
,
letting go
,
lineup
,
liquidation
,
marshaling
,
officiation
,
order
,
ordering
,
organization
,
ostracism
,
outlawing
,
outlawry
,
passing around
,
paying out
,
peace
,
placement
,
proportion
,
purge
,
quiet
,
quietude
,
recantation
,
refuse
,
regimentation
,
regularity
,
reject
,
rejectamenta
,
rejection
,
release
,
relegation
,
relinquishment
,
removal
,
renunciation
,
resignation
,
retraction
,
riddance
,
routine
,
sacrifice
,
sale
,
scrapping
,
sequence
,
settlement
,
settling
,
setup
,
severance
,
structure
,
structuring
,
surrender
,
suspension
,
swearing off
,
symmetry
,
syntax
,
system
,
throwaway
,
trading
,
tranquillity
,
transfer
,
transference
,
transmission
,
transmittal
,
uniformity
,
vesting
,
withdrawal
,
yielding
attrition
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the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition"
sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
related words >
abatement
,
ablation
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
absorption
,
apologies
,
assimilation
,
atomization
,
attenuation
,
ayenbite of inwit
,
beating
,
bitterness
,
blunting
,
brecciation
,
buffing
,
burning up
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
comminution
,
consumption
,
contriteness
,
contrition
,
corrosion
,
crumbling
,
crushing
,
curtailment
,
cut
,
cutting
,
damping
,
deadening
,
debilitation
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
deliquescence
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
detraction
,
detrition
,
devitalization
,
digestion
,
dilution
,
diminution
,
dip
,
disintegration
,
disparagement
,
dissipation
,
dissolution
,
drain
,
dressing
,
dulling
,
eating up
,
effemination
,
enervation
,
enfeeblement
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
evisceration
,
exhaustion
,
expending
,
expenditure
,
extenuation
,
extraction
,
fatigue
,
filing
,
finishing
,
fragmentation
,
fretting
,
galling
,
granulation
,
granulization
,
grating
,
grazing
,
grief
,
grinding
,
impairment
,
impoverishment
,
inanition
,
ingestion
,
languishment
,
lessening
,
levigation
,
limation
,
loss
,
mashing
,
mitigation
,
penance
,
penitently
,
polishing
,
pounding
,
powdering
,
rasping
,
reduction
,
regret
,
regretfulness
,
regrets
,
regretting
,
relaxation
,
remission
,
remorse
,
remorse of conscience
,
remorsefulness
,
repentance
,
repining
,
retraction
,
retrenchment
,
rubbing away
,
rue
,
ruth
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
shame
,
shamefacedness
,
shamefastness
,
shamefulness
,
shining
,
shortening
,
shredding
,
shrinkage
,
slackening
,
smashing
,
smoothing
,
softening
,
sorriness
,
sorrow
,
spending
,
squandering
,
thinning
,
trituration
,
truncation
,
using up
,
wastage
,
waste
,
wastefulness
,
wasting away
,
weakening
,
wear
,
wear and tear
,
wearing away
,
wearing down
,
wistfulness
repudiation
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the exposure of falseness or pretensions; "the debunking of religion has been too successful"
refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities); "the repudiation of the debt by the city"
rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid; "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated"
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abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abnegation
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
agreement to disagree
,
alienation
,
annulment
,
apostasy
,
bad debt
,
ban
,
bar
,
barring
,
blockade
,
boycott
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
circumscription
,
contempt
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
counter-culture
,
countering
,
crossing
,
debarment
,
debarring
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
default
,
defection
,
delinquence
,
delinquency
,
demarcation
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
despisal
,
despising
,
difference
,
disaccord
,
disaffirmation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disapprobation
,
disapproval
,
disavowal
,
discard
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discounting
,
dishonor
,
dishonoring
,
dismissal
,
disobedience
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
disparity
,
disproof
,
disregard
,
dissatisfaction
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
dissidence
,
diversity
,
dropping out
,
embargo
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
expatriation
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
holding back
,
ignoring
,
impugnment
,
inadmissibility
,
injunction
,
lockout
,
minority opinion
,
narrowing
,
nay
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
nix
,
no
,
nonacceptance
,
nonadmission
,
nonagreement
,
nonapproval
,
nonassent
,
noncompliance
,
nonconcurrence
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsent
,
nonconsideration
,
nondischarge of debts
,
nonobservance
,
nonpayment
,
nonremittal
,
nullification
,
omission
,
opposition
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
passing by
,
preclusion
,
prohibition
,
protest
,
protested bill
,
putting away
,
putting out
,
rebuff
,
recantation
,
recusance
,
recusancy
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
relegation
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repulse
,
restriction
,
retention
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
revokement
,
scouting
,
secession
,
spurning
,
taboo
,
throwing out
,
thumbs-down
,
turndown
,
turning out
,
uncollectible
,
underground
,
unsaying
,
unwillingness
,
variance
,
withdrawal
,
withholding
yielding
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tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington
lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"
inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person"
related words >
abandonment
,
abatement of differences
,
abdication
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
acceptance
,
accommodating
,
accommodation
,
acquiescence
,
acquiescent
,
adaptable
,
adjustment
,
agreeable
,
amenable
,
arrangement
,
assent
,
bargain
,
bearing
,
bendable
,
bending
,
biddable
,
bouncy
,
cession
,
complaisance
,
compliance
,
compliant
,
composition
,
compromise
,
concession
,
consent
,
convenient
,
cop-out
,
deal
,
deference
,
desertion of principle
,
dispensation
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
docile
,
dropping out
,
ductile
,
dumping
,
elastic
,
evasion of responsibility
,
extensible
,
extensile
,
fabricable
,
facile
,
feasible
,
fictile
,
flexible
,
flexile
,
flexuous
,
foolproof
,
forgoing
,
formable
,
formative
,
forswearing
,
fructiferous
,
fructification
,
fruitbearing
,
fruiting
,
fruition
,
getting rid of
,
give-and-take
,
giving
,
giving up
,
giving way
,
handing over
,
handy
,
homage
,
impressible
,
impressionable
,
kneeling
,
letting go
,
like putty
,
limber
,
lissome
,
lithe
,
lithesome
,
malleable
,
manageable
,
maneuverable
,
manipulable
,
moldable
,
mushy
,
mutual concession
,
nonopposal
,
nonopposition
,
nonresistance
,
nonresistant
,
nonresisting
,
obedience
,
obedient
,
obeisance
,
obliging
,
pappy
,
passiveness
,
passivity
,
plastic
,
pliable
,
pliant
,
practical
,
producing
,
pulpy
,
quaggy
,
recantation
,
receptive
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
resignation
,
resigned
,
resignedness
,
resilient
,
responsive
,
retraction
,
riddance
,
rubbery
,
sacrifice
,
sensitive
,
sequacious
,
settlement
,
shapable
,
soft
,
spongy
,
springy
,
squashy
,
squelchy
,
squishy
,
squushy
,
subjection
,
submission
,
submissive
,
submittal
,
supineness
,
supple
,
surrender
,
susceptible
,
swearing off
,
tractable
,
tractile
,
unaustere
,
undemanding
,
understanding
,
unexacting
,
unharsh
,
unresistant
,
unresisting
,
unsevere
,
unstrict
,
untroublesome
,
waiver
,
whippy
,
wieldable
,
wieldy
,
willowy
,
withdrawing
contradiction
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the speech act of contradicting someone; "he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction"
(logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction"
opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
answer
,
antagonism
,
antipathy
,
antithesis
,
argumentation
,
backlash
,
bucking
,
challenge
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
clashing
,
collision
,
complete answer
,
conflict
,
confounding
,
confrontation
,
confutation
,
contempt
,
contention
,
contradistinction
,
contraindication
,
contraposition
,
contrariety
,
contrary assertion
,
contrast
,
contravention
,
contraversion
,
controversion
,
controversy
,
counteraction
,
countering
,
counterposition
,
counterworking
,
crankiness
,
cross-purposes
,
crosscurrent
,
crossing
,
crotchetiness
,
declination
,
declining
,
demolition
,
denial
,
despisal
,
despising
,
difference
,
disaccord
,
disaccordance
,
disaffirmation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disapproval
,
disavowal
,
discard
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discord
,
discordance
,
discordancy
,
discounting
,
discrediting
,
discrepancy
,
disharmony
,
dismissal
,
disownment
,
disparity
,
disproof
,
disregard
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissidence
,
dissonance
,
disunion
,
disunity
,
divergence
,
diversity
,
effective rejoinder
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
faction
,
forswearing
,
friction
,
gainsaying
,
head wind
,
hostility
,
ignoring
,
impugnation
,
impugnment
,
inaccordance
,
inconsistency
,
inequality
,
inimicalness
,
interference
,
jarring
,
kick
,
negation
,
nonacceptance
,
nonapproval
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsideration
,
nullification
,
opposing
,
oppositeness
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnance
,
oppugnancy
,
oppugnation
,
overthrow
,
overthrowal
,
passing by
,
perverseness
,
perversity
,
polarity
,
putting away
,
putting out
,
reaction
,
rebuff
,
rebutment
,
rebuttal
,
recalcitrance
,
recantation
,
recoil
,
refusal
,
refutal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
renitency
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repercussion
,
repudiation
,
repugnance
,
repulse
,
resistance
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
revolt
,
scouting
,
showdown
,
spurning
,
squelch
,
standing against
,
subversion
,
swimming upstream
,
throwing out
,
traversal
,
turning out
,
undercurrent
,
undermining
,
unharmoniousness
,
upset
,
upsetting
,
variance
extraction
collapse
the act of pulling out (as a tooth); "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"
the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
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affiliation
,
ancestry
,
apparentation
,
architecture
,
assembly
,
attraction
,
attrition
,
birth
,
blood
,
bloodline
,
bolting
,
branch
,
breed
,
building
,
casting
,
clarification
,
colature
,
common ancestry
,
composition
,
concentrate
,
concentration
,
consanguinity
,
construction
,
conversion
,
crafting
,
craftsmanship
,
creation
,
cultivation
,
curtailment
,
cut
,
cutting
,
decoction
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
deracination
,
derivation
,
derogation
,
descent
,
destructive distillation
,
detraction
,
devising
,
diminution
,
dip
,
direct line
,
disparagement
,
distaff side
,
distillate
,
distillation
,
draft
,
drawing
,
drayage
,
edulcoration
,
elaboration
,
elixir
,
elution
,
elutriation
,
eradication
,
erection
,
essence
,
essentialization
,
excerpt
,
excerption
,
extirpation
,
extract
,
extrication
,
fabrication
,
family
,
fashioning
,
female line
,
filiation
,
filtering
,
filtration
,
formation
,
forming
,
formulation
,
framing
,
growing
,
handicraft
,
handiwork
,
harvesting
,
haulage
,
hauling
,
heaving
,
house
,
impairment
,
infusion
,
leaching
,
lessening
,
line
,
line of descent
,
lineage
,
lixiviation
,
machining
,
making
,
male line
,
manufacture
,
manufacturing
,
milling
,
mining
,
molding
,
origin
,
parentage
,
passage
,
pedigree
,
percolation
,
phylum
,
prefabrication
,
preparation
,
processing
,
producing
,
pull
,
pulling
,
pulling power
,
purification
,
quintessence
,
race
,
raising
,
reduction
,
refinement
,
refining
,
remission
,
removal
,
retraction
,
retrenchment
,
riddling
,
screening
,
seed
,
selected passage
,
selection
,
separation
,
sept
,
shaping
,
shortening
,
shrinkage
,
side
,
sieving
,
sifting
,
smelting
,
spear side
,
spindle side
,
spirit
,
spiritualization
,
stem
,
stirps
,
stock
,
strain
,
straining
,
sublimation
,
succession
,
sword side
,
towage
,
towing
,
traction
,
tractive power
,
truncation
,
tug-of-war
,
tugging
,
uprooting
,
winnowing
,
withdrawal
,
workmanship
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