renounce

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin renuntiare.

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renounce (plural renounces)

  1. (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)

  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)(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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