Renounce vs. Denounce

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  • Renounce (noun)

    An act of renouncing.

  • Renounce (verb)

    To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.

    “to renounce a title to land or to a throne”

  • Renounce (verb)

    To cast off, repudiate.

  • Renounce (verb)

    To decline further association with someone or something, disown.

  • Renounce (verb)

    To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.

  • Renounce (verb)

    To make a renunciation of something.

  • Renounce (verb)

    To surrender formally some right or trust.

  • Renounce (verb)

    To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

  • Denounce (verb)

    To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.

  • Denounce (verb)

    To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.

    “to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward”

  • Denounce (verb)

    To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.

    “to denounce a confederate in crime”

    “to denounce someone to the authorities”

  • Denounce (verb)

    To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.

    “to denounce war; to denounce punishment”

  • Denounce (verb)

    To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.

  • Denounce (verb)

    To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.

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