Possible Clues:

• Formally renounce throne, power etc
• Waive a rule, ie bad act that needs changing
• Resign from the crown or major responsibility
• Relinquish an office
• Relinquish one's power
• Vacate the throne voluntarily
• Detectives to return in temper and resign
• Sailor given heartless order to stand down
• Give up when plainclothes policemen come back in a rage
• Abandon a book, having no time to read aloud