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renounce

/ɹɪˈnaʊns/

noun

Meaning

  • An act of renouncing.

verb

Meaning

  • To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.

    "to renounce a title to land or to a throne"

  • 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.

Synonyms

forsay,
forswear