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resigned

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re·signed  (r-znd)
adj.
Feeling or marked by resignation; acquiescent: "I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do" (Willa Cather).
re·signed·ly (-znd-l) adv.
re·signed·ness n.
resigned
Adjective
content to endure something unpleasant
resignedly adv
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resigned
adjective stoical, patient, subdued, long-suffering, compliant, submissive, acquiescent, unresisting, unprotesting
Translations
resigned [rɪˈzaɪnd] adj → resignado
resigned [rɪˈzaɪnd] adj → résigné(e)
resigned [rɪˈzaɪnd] resign adj to be resigned to sth → sich mit etw abgefunden haben


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We were resigned to our fate, and we remained resigned until we aroused to the fact that we were drifting along the north shore not a hundred feet away.
Before Adam by London, Jack View in context
I grew used to everything, or rather I voluntarily resigned myself to enduring it.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Moreover, his hand was tolerably free; he stopped up his nose and resigned himself.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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