Abnegate

Definitions: Abnegate

Abnegate

Verb

1. Surrender; "The King abnegated his power to the ministers".

2. Deny or renounce; "They abnegated their gods".

Date "abnegate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1863. (references)

Note: Abnegate \Ab"ne*gate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Abnegated; present participle verb or noun Abnegating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Abnegate

Synonym: Disown. (additional references)

Crosswords: Abnegate

English words defined with "abnegate": Abnegated, Abnegating. (references)

"Abnegate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abnegate" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	3	202,518

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "abnegate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		afsweer (abjure, forswear, renounce, swear, swear off). (various references)

Albanian		mohoj (deny, disaffirm, disavow, disclaim, disown, gainsay, negate, negative, rat, refuse, repudiate, retract, set aside), heq dorë nga (discard, disclaim, do without, forego, forgo, forsake, lay aside, lay down, part with, relinquish, renounce, throw over, waive). (various references)

Arabic		‏تخلى تنازل. (various references)

Bulgarian		отричам (denounce, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, proscribe, renounce, repudiate, retract, testify against), отхвърлям (avoid, cast away, cast down, challenge, decline, demur, deny, disallow, disclaim, dismiss, except, exclude, fling away, ignore, kiss off, negative, override, proscribe, rebuff, rebut, refuse, refute, renounce, repudiate, scout, set aside, throw back, throw down, throw off, throw out, toss away, toss over, vote down, wash out, wave aside), отказвам се от (abandon, call off, decline, deny oneself, disavow, discard, disclaim, forwent, give away, give oneself up, give up, jettison, part with, pass up, put away, remise, renounce, repudiate, retract, surrender, toss over, turn from, turn in, yield), не признавам (disown, renounce). (various references)

Chinese		�"�弃 (Abandonment, Abnegated, Abnegating, Abort, Aborted, Ditched, Ditching, quit, Quits, Quitted, Quitting, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, renege, renounce, Renounced, Renouncing, Waive, Waived, Waiver, Waiving). (various references)

Czech		vzdát se (concede, dispense with, forsake, give away, give in, give oneself up, give up, lay down, lie down, relinquish, renounce). (various references)

Danish		nægte (deny, refuse, reject), benægte (deny). (various references)

Dutch		abnegeren (deny oneself). (various references)

Esperanto		abnegacii (deny oneself), abĵuri (abjure). (various references)

Faeroese		sýta (deny, refuse, reject), nokta (deny). (various references)

French		abjurer (abjure). (various references)

German		leugnen (denial, deny, forswear, gainsay, renounce, to deny). (various references)

Greek		παραιτούμαι (abdicate, desist, disclaim, forgo, give up, go without, leave, quit, relinquish, relinquish to, resign, resign from, waive), εγκαταλείπω (abandon, abdicate, desert, drop out, forsake, give up, jettison, maroon, quit, relinquish, renounce), αρνούμαι (dcline, decline, deny, disavow, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, rebuff, refuse), απαρνούμαι (abdicate, abjure, disclaim, disown, renounce, repudiate), αποκηρύσσω (abjure, disavow, disown, recant, renounce, repudiate), αποποιούμαι (disclaim, rebuff, renounce, repulse). (various references)

Hungarian		megtagadja önmagát (deny oneself), lemond valamirõl (part with, pass up, relinquish, surrender, waive). (various references)

Icelandic		sverja fyrir (abjure), neita (deny, refuse, reject). (various references)

Italian		rinunciare a (forgo, renounce, surrender), provarsi di, negarsi, negare (deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, gainsay, negate, refuse, repudiate, unsay, withhold). (various references)

Norwegian		nekte (denigh, deny, refuse, reject), benekte (deny). (various references)

Papiamen		nenga (deny, refuse, reject), minti (deny), desmintí (deny). (various references)

Pig Latin		abnegateay.(various references)

Portuguese		renunciar (abandon, abdicate, abjure, depart, desist, disclaim, foregoing, fossa, give up, renounce, resign, surrender, waive), abnegar (deny oneself, renounce). (various references)

Romanian		tãgãdui (contest, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, gainsay, negate, negative), renunţa la (abandon, abdicate, back down, cast aside, chuck up, declare off, deny, disclaim, doff, drop, forgo, forsake, give over, lay down, part with, remise, renounce, resign, sacrifice, shunt, sink, spare, surrender, throw up, yield up), renega (abjure, deny, disclaim, disown, renounce), nu-şi permite. (various references)

Russian		отрицать (deny, disaffirm, disavow, disclaim, gainsay, negate, refuse to acknowledge, say no, traverse), отказываться (abdicate, abjure, decline, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, fail to, forgo, forsake, forsaken, forsook, recede, refuse, refused, reject, renounce, repudiate, resign, waive, waived). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uskratiti sebi, poricati (disclaim, unsay), odreći se (abdicate, abjure, back down, deny, disclaim, forgo, forwent, relinquish, remise, renounce, sign away, surrender, waive, withdraw). (various references)

Spanish		negar (cut, decry, deny, disclaim, disprove, gainsay, negate, negative, refuse, to negate), abjurar (abjure, abjurer, forswear, renounce, swear off). (various references)

Swedish		avsäga sig (abdicate, renounce). (various references)

Turkish		yadsımak (deny, disown), tanımamak (be unacquainted with, disclaim, disown, not to know, not to recognize, renounce, repudiate), reddetmek (cast off, challenge, controvert, damn, declare off, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispute, draw the line, fall down, gainsay, negate, negative, Nix, overrule, protest, quash, rebut, refuse, refute, reject, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, rule out, scout, set aside, spurn, take objection to, throw out, turn back, turn down, turn thumbs down on, veto, wave aside), inkâr etmek (deny, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown, gainsay, go back on, negate, repudiate). (various references)

Ukranian		відрікатися, відкидати (baffle, balk, brush away, cast aside, cast away, deny, disapprove, discard, divest, doff, forswear, jettison, negate, negative, non-concur, override, overturn, push back, rebut, reject, reprobate, repudiate, set aside, throw aside, throw away, toss aside, turn down, wave aside, wave away), відмовлятися (abdicate, abjure, back down, backtrack, cast off, discard, forgo, forsake, forswear, jettison, lay aside, lay down, nill, part with, pass up, pretext, recede, refuse, relinquish, renounce, repeal, retract, throw aside, throw out, throw over, waive, withdraw), відмовляти собі (stint oneself), зрікатися (abdicate, abjure, deny, disclaim, forswear, recant, renege, renegue, renounce, repudiate, resign), заперечувати (answer, answer back, challenge, contradict, contravene, demur, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown, expostulate, forbid, gainsay, impugn, mind, negative, nill, object, oppugn, rejoin, talk back). (various references)

Zulu		-phikisa (deny). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	abiurare, abnegare, abrenuntiare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "abnegate": abnegated, abnegates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Abnegate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abneget, abregate, Ambegate, Bengate, gabexate, Sandgatte. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "abnegate" (pronounced 'Ab"ne*gate'): Abjugate, Abligate, Adjugate, Adrogate, Alligate, Arrogate, Assubjugate, Bicolligate, Biconjugate, Bijugate, BILLINGSGATE, Castigate, Circumnavigate, Clarigate, Defatigate, Deligate, Delitigate, Denegate, Disaggregate, Disgregate, Dogate, Enavigate, Erogate, Erugate, Evestigate, Evulgate, Expurgate, Extravagate, fumigate, Fungate, Fustigate, Homologate, Indagate, Ingate, instigate, irrigate, Irrugate, Laevigate, Langate, Ligate, mitigate, Multijugate, Objurgate, Obligate, Obrogate, Outgate, Pervestigate, Plagate, Prodigate, Prolongate, Prorogate, Quadrijugate, Refragate, Reinterrogate, Reinvestigate, relegate, Renavigate, Rugate, Runagate, Self-conjugate, Strigate, Subelongate, subjugate, subrogate, Suffragate, Suffumigate, Supererogate, tollgate, Trijugate, Unijugate, Variegate, Vestigate, Vitilitigate, Waygate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-g-n-t"
	-2 letters: agnate, beaten, negate.
	-3 letters: abate, agate, agene, agent, antae, began, begat, beget, eaten, enate, genet, tenge.
	-4 letters: abet, agee, anga, anta, ante, bane, bang, bate, bean, beat, been, beet, bene, bent, beta, etna, gaen, gane, gate, gene, gent, geta, gnat, nabe, neat, tang, teen.
	-5 letters: aba, aga, age, ana, ane, ant, ate, baa, bag, ban, bat, bee, beg, ben, bet, eat, eng, eta, gab, gae, gan, gat, gee, gen, get, nab, nae, nag, neb, nee, net, tab, tae, tag, tan, tea, tee, teg, ten.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-e-g-n-t"
	+1 letter: abnegated, abnegates.
	+2 letters: baronetage.
	+3 letters: baronetages, talebearing.
	+4 letters: exacerbating, magnetizable, talebearings.
	+5 letters: heartbreaking, indefatigable.
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