verb
resign
To accept something unpleasant as unavoidable.
She resigns herself to a long wait.
Etymology
Resign developed the sense of giving up or surrendering. To resign oneself to something is to give up resistance to a condition accepted as unavoidable.
More examples
- He had resigned himself to losing the deposit.
- They reluctantly resigned themselves to the delay.
- I refused to resign myself to failure.
Forms
resign · resigns · resigned · resigning
resigned adjective — accepting something unwanted as unavoidable