renounce

English

Etymology

From Latin renuntiare.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊns

Noun

renounce (plural renounces)

1. (card games) An act of renouncing.

Related terms

• renunciation

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• renounceable
• renouncement
• renouncer

Related terms

• announce
• denounce
• pronounce

Translations

give up

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放棄 (cmn), 放弃 (cmn) (fàngqì)

• Czech: vzdát se (cs)
• Dutch: opgeven (nl)
• Finnish: luovuttaa (fi), antaa periksi (fi)

• Norwegian: forsake (no), oppgi (no)
• Romanian: lepăda (ro), renunța (ro)
• Russian: сдаваться (ru) (sdavátʹsja) impf., сдаться (ru) (sdátʹsja) pf.
• Serbo-Croatian: odustati (sh)

decline association with

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斷絕關係, 断绝关系 (duànjué guānxì)

• Esperanto: malkonfesi (eo)
• Estonian: lahti ütlema (et)
• Finnish: kieltää (fi)

• Norwegian: avsverge (no), fornekte (no)
• Russian: отрекаться (ru) (otrekátʹsja) impf., отречься (ru) (otréčʹsja) pf., отвергать (ru) (otvergátʹ) impf., отвергнуть (ru) (otvérgnutʹ) pf.
• Scottish Gaelic: àicheidh (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: otkazati (sh)

abandon, forsake an action

• Finnish: hylätä (fi), luopua (fi)
• Irish:
  • Old Irish: do·beir druimm fri

• Norwegian: gi avkall (no), renonsere (no)
• Russian: отступаться (ru) (otstupátʹsja) impf., отступиться (ru) (otstupítʹsja) pf.
• Serbo-Croatian: napustiti (sh), dići ruke (sh)

make renunciation

• Danish: give afkald
• Dutch: verzaken (aan) (4)

• Finnish: mitätöidä (fi)

surrender a right or trust

• Finnish: luopua (fi)
• Norwegian: frasi (no), gi avkall (no), renonsere (no)

• Russian: отказываться (ru) (otkázyvatʹsja) impf., отказаться (ru) (otkazátʹsja) pf.
• Serbo-Croatian: odustati (sh), predati se (sh)

fail to follow suit

• Dutch: verzaken (nl)

• Finnish: olla tunnustamatta väriä

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• Esperanto: rezigni

References

• renounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913