- Abandon
- Acknowledge defeat
- Admit defeat
- Renounce
- Throw in the towel
- Yield to American soldier streak
- Deny responsibility for
- Disclaim
- Princess uses broadcast to deny connection
- Refuse to acknowledge commotion about pig
- Refuse to maintain any connection with
- Renounce
- Repudiate
- A band on strand?
- A group on leave
- A musical group on the Strand
- Desert, give up
- Discontinue
- Ditch
- Drop out of
- Become independent
- Become independent on return from predecessors
- Break away (from a group)
- Break away (politically)
- Break from group
- Formally withdraw
- Give up
- Bad Catie! Give up crown!
- Bad move! I get Ms Blanchett to give up leading role
- Cite a bad design and resign from office
- English men see why we need mercy
- Relinquish power
- Renounce crown
- Renounce the throne