renounce
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin renuntiare.
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- Rhymes: -aʊns
[edit] Noun
renounce (plural renounces)
- (card games) An act of renouncing.
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renounce (third-person singular simple present renounces, present participle renouncing, simple past and past participle renounced)
- (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
- (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
- (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
- (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
- (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
- (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
- (intransitive)(cards) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
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[edit] Translations
give up
decline association with
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abandon, forsake an action
surrender a right or trust
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[edit] References
- renounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
