abdicate one's responsibility

abdicate v.
to renounce(a throne or power) as monarchs or emperors especially formally; to give up (rights, responsibilities, duties or obligations)

1. The old must abdicate the new.
2. If the King didn't abdicate then, he would have to be dethroned.
3. Yuan Shikai forced the emperor to abdicate and hand over power to him.

abdicate one's responsibilities
abdicate the office

abbey n.
a building inhabited by a community of monks or nuns governed by an abbot or abbess

abdomen n. abdominal adj.
belly; the region of the body of vertebrate that contains the viscera other than the heart and lungs. In mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm.