Dictionary Entry
renounce
renounce is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.
- 2transitive verb
To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
- 3transitive verb
To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
- 4intransitive verb
To make renunciation.
- 5intransitive verb
To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
- 6noun
Act of renouncing.
- 7verb
cast off
"She renounced her husband"
"The parents repudiated their son"
- 8verb
turn away from; give up
"I am foreswearing women forever"
Synonyms
- 9verb
leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
"She vacated the position when she got pregnant"
"The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"
- 10verb
give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
"The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
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