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resigned

 adjective
     
re‧signed
1

be resigned to (doing) something

to calmly accept a situation that is bad, but cannot be changed:
She's resigned to spending Christmas on her own.
Sam was resigned to the fact that he would never be promoted.
2 a resigned look, voice etc shows that you are making yourself accept something that you do not like:
'We'll have to leave,' she said with a resigned sigh.
—resignedly adverb
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