renounce

Meaning

Noun

An act of renouncing.

Verb

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

Synonyms

give up

abandon

relinquish

resign

abjure

repudiate

quit

abdicate

disavow

forsake

disown

waive

abnegate

disclaim

reject

forswear

deny

leave

vacate

forgo

desert

🏜️

discard

swear off

foreswear

refuse

surrender

recant

yield

deny oneself

throw away

sacrifice

cede

abstain from

omit

cast off

desolate

avoid

denounce

assign

deliver

cut short

apostatize

drop

divest

diverge

annul

abandonment

ditch

disqualify

cashier

Translations

renunciar

renunciar

renoncer

verzichten

opgeven

abandonner

uitvallen

resignar

afstand doen van

desistir

abjurer

verzaken

résigner

abdiquer

abrir mão de

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈnaʊns/

Etymology

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