Renounce

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To give up (a title or possession, for example), especially by formal announcement.
  • intransitive verb. To decide or declare that one will no longer adhere to (a belief or position); reject.
  • intransitive verb. To decide or declare that one will no longer engage in (a practice) or use (something): synonym: relinquish.
  • intransitive verb. To disclaim one's association with (a person or country, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To give up, relinquish, or reject something.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In card-games in which the rule is to follow suit, the playing of a card of a different suit from that led.
  • To declare against; disown; disclaim; abjure; forswear; refuse to own, acknowledge, or practise.
  • To cast off or reject, as a connection or possession; forsake.
  • In card-playing, to play (a suit) different from what is led: as, he renounced spades.
  • To declare a renunciation.
  • In card-games in which the rule is to follow suit, to play a card of a different suit from that led; in a restricted sense, to have to play a card of another suit when the player has no card of the suit led. Compare revoke.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To make renunciation.
  • intransitive verb. To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
  • transitive verb. To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim.
  • transitive verb. To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
  • transitive verb. To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
  • transitive verb. to decline to act as the executor of a will.
  • noun. Act of renouncing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An act of renouncing.
  • verb. To give up, resign, surrender.
  • verb. To cast off, repudiate.
  • verb. To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
  • verb. To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
  • verb. To make a renunciation of something.
  • verb. To surrender formally some right or trust.
  • verb. (cards) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
  • verb. turn away from; give up
  • verb. cast off
  • verb. leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
  • Word Usage
    "We were contemptible to attend to which Edgar Scott, a partial of of unequivocally prolonged standing, has motionless to renounce from a Society, given he feels which he can no longer have a prolonged expostulate home after cooking meetings."
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    give up  resign  vacate  
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