renounce

Signification

Noun

An act of renouncing.

Verb

1. To give up, resign, surrender.
2. To cast off, repudiate.
3. To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
4. To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
5. To make a renunciation of something.
6. To surrender formally some right or trust.
7. To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɹɪˈnaʊns/

Étymologie

From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renuntiare.