• IPA: /diˈnaʊns/, /dəˈnaʊns/

denounce (denounces, present participle denouncing; past and past participle denounced)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 35, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     Nero […] sent his Satellites or officers toward him, to denounce the decree of his death to him […].

2. (transitive) 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

   • 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party ↗," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):

     Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.

3. (transitive) 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

4. (transitive, obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.

   to denounce war; to denounce punishment

5. (transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
6. (US, historical) To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.

• attack, charge, condemn, criticize, damn, decry, discredit, inveigh against, proscribe, report

• denunciate

• denunciate
• denunciation
• denunciative
• denunciator
• denunciatory

• Russian: оглаша́ть

• French: dénoncer
• German: verurteilen
• Portuguese: denunciar
• Russian: облича́ть
• Spanish: denunciar

• French: dénoncer, (slang) balancer
• Portuguese: acusar
• Russian: разоблача́ть
• Spanish: denunciar

• Russian: угрожа́ть

• French: dénoncer
• German: kündigen, aufkündigen
• Russian: денонси́ровать