Meaning of resigned(p) in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    resigned(p)

    Definitions

    1. (followed by `to') having come to accept

    Examples

    • « resigned to his fate »

    Synonyms

Famous quotes

  • « When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric. »
    Tom Conti
  • « I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. »
    Willa Cather
  • « Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out? »
    Mitch McConnell
  • « After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. »
    Bob Woodward
  • « The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. »
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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