Usually means: Renounce or reject something desired.
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  1. abnegate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abnegate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abnegate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abnegate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abnegate: Vocabulary.com
  6. abnegate: Wordnik
  7. abnegate: Wiktionary
  8. abnegate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. abnegate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. abnegate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Abnegate, abnegate: Dictionary.com
  12. Abnegate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. abnegate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. abnegate: Rhymezone
  15. Abnegate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. abnegate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. abnegate: Free Dictionary
  18. abnegate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. abnegate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. abnegate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. abnegate: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abnegate: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abnegate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abnegate)

verb:  (transitive) To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
verb:  (transitive) To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.

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