renounce

== English == === Etymology === From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō. Doublet of renunciate. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɹɪˈnaʊns/ Rhymes: -aʊns === Noun === renounce (plural renounces) (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) (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender. Synonym: (obsolete) atsake (transitive) To cast off, repudiate. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown. Synonyms: disown, repudiate; see also Thesaurus:repudiate (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, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led. ==== Synonyms ==== forsay forswear ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== announce denounce pronounce ==== Translations ==== === References === “renounce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.