disown, renounce, repudiate
(verb) cast off; “She renounced her husband”; “The parents repudiated their son”
foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish
(verb) turn away from; give up; “I am foreswearing women forever”
vacate, resign, renounce, give up
(verb) 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”
abdicate, renounce
(verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; “The King abdicated when he married a divorcee”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
renounce (plural renounces)
(card games) An act of renouncing.
renounce (third-person singular simple present renounces, present participle renouncing, simple past and past participle renounced)
(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
(transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
(transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
(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.
• forsay
• forswear
Source: Wiktionary
Re*nounce" (r-nouns"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Renounced (-nounst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Renouncing (-noun"sng).] Etym: [F. renoncer, L. renuntiare to bring back word, announce, revoke, retract, renounce; pref. re- re- + nuntiare to announce, fr. nuncius, a messenger. See Nuncio, and cf. Renunciation.]
1. 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.
2. To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear. This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off. Shak.
3. (Card Playing)
Definition: To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit. To renounce probate (Law), to decline to act as the executor of a will. Mozley & W.
Syn.
– To cast off; disavow; disown; disclaim; deny; abjure; recant; abandon; forsake; quit; forego; resign; relinquish; give up; abdicate.
– Renounce, Abjure, Recant.
– To renounce is to make an affirmative declaration of abandonment. To abjure is to renounce with, or as with, the solemnity of an oath. To recant is to renounce or abjure some proposition previously affirmed and maintained. From Thebes my birth I own; . . . since no disgrace Can force me to renounce the honor of my race. Dryden. Either to die the death, or to abjure Forever the society of man. Shak. Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Milton.
Re*nounce", v. i.
1. To make renunciation. [Obs.] He of my sons who fails to make it good, By one rebellious act renounces to my blood. Dryden.
2. (Law)
Definition: To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters. Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10. W. D. Christie.
Re*nounce", n. (Card Playing)
Definition: Act of renouncing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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