Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

resign

/ɹɪˈzaɪn/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English

Syllables: re-sign
IPA: /ɹɪˈzaɪn/

7

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To give up; to relinquish ownership of.

Transitive verb

verb

To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.

Transitive verb

verb

To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status.

Intransitive verb; Transitive verb

verb

To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.

Transitive verb

verb

Alternative spelling of re-sign.

Example Sentences

"And if the perfection of well-speaking might bring any glorie sutable unto a great personage, Scipio and Lelius would never have resigned the honour of their Comedies[…]unto an Affrican servant[…]."
"I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees."
"He resigned the crown to follow his heart."
"To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home. Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office."
"He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion."
"Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recrimination. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? Do you know what resigned him to his fate?"

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman resigner, Middle French resigner, and its source, Latin resignāre (“to unseal, annul, assign, resign”), from re- + signāre (“to seal, stamp”). Piecewise doublet of re-sign.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ɹɪˈzaɪn/

Usage

Inflected Forms

resigns (present, singular) resigning (participle, present) resigned (participle, past) resigned (past) no-table-tags (table tags) glossary (inflection template) resigned (first person, past) resignest (archaic, present) resigned (past, second person) resignedst (archaic, past) resigneth (archaic, present) resigned (past, singular)

Derived Forms

resignable resignation resignatory resignee resigner resignful resignment unresign

Phrases

resign oneself

Synonyms

vacate quit reconcile submit release relinquish free give up

Rhymes With

line fine design sign mine nine wine decline define divine shine pine

Questions

How do you pronounce resign?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɹɪˈzaɪn/.
What does resign mean?: To give up; to relinquish ownership of.
Where does resign come from?: From Anglo-Norman resigner, Middle French resigner, and its source, Latin resignāre (“to unseal, annul, assign, resign”), from re- + signāre (“to seal, stamp”). Piecewise doublet of re-sign.

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