renounce
Plural: renounces
Verb
Verb Forms: renounced, renouncing, renounces
- To formally declare one's abandonment of a claim or belief.
- give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
- leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- turn away from; give up
- cast off
- "She renounced her husband"
- To give up, resign, surrender.
- To cast off, repudiate.
- To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
- To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
- To make a renunciation of something.
- To surrender formally some right or trust.
- To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
Noun
- An act of renouncing.
Examples
- I had to RENOUNCE my initial strategy when the board offered no good spots.
- to renounce a title to land or to a throne
Origin / Etymology
From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō.
Synonyms
abdicate, disown, foreswear, give up, quit, relinquish, repudiate, resign, vacate, abjure, atsake, deny, disavow, disclaim, forsay, forswear, renounce, wash one's hands of
Scrabble Score: 10
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