English Explanatory Dictionary

renounce

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

An act of renouncing.

verb

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.

Pronunciation

/ɹɪˈnaʊns/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-renounce.wav

Word forms

renounce renounces renouncing renounced

Etymology

From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō. Doublet of renunciate.

Synonyms

forsay forswear atsake disown repudiate abjure deny disavow disclaim renounce wash one's hands of

Related words

renunciation announce denounce pronounce

Derived words

nonrenouncing renounceable renouncement renouncer renounce the world unrenounced unrenouncing

Translations

Bulgarian: изоставям Finnish: hylätä Finnish: luopua German: aufgeben Hungarian: elhagy Hungarian: lemond Hungarian: felad Hungarian: megszüntet Hungarian: abbahagy Hungarian: felhagy Hungarian: megtagad Irish: tréig Old Irish: do·beir druimm fri Italian: abbandonare Norwegian: gi avkall Norwegian: renonsere Romanian: abandona Russian: отступа́ться Russian: отступи́ться Sanskrit: जहाति Serbo-Croatian: napustiti Serbo-Croatian: dići ruke Tamil: துற Tocharian B: ār-

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