From (French renoncer), from .

• IPA: /ɹɪˈnaʊns/

renounce (plural renounces)

1. (card games) An act of renouncing.

• renunciation

renounce (renounces, present participle renouncing; simple past and past participle renounced)

1. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.

   Synonyms: atsake

   to renounce a title to land or to a throne

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     It is terrible to think of the power of the world even in a redeemed soul. Here was a maid who had drunk of the well of grace and tasted of God's mercies, and yet there were moments when she was ready to renounce her hope.

2. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene vi]:

     This world I do renounce, and in your sights
     Shake patiently my great affliction off.

3. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.

   Synonyms: disown, repudiate, Thesaurus:repudiate

4. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
5. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
   • 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC ↗:

     He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.

6. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
   • 1870, William Dougal Christie, Memoir of John Dryden:

     Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.

7. (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

• announce
• denounce
• pronounce

• German: aufgeben
• Italian: rinunciare, abdicare
• Russian: сдава́ться

• German: verleugnen, desavouieren, abstreiten, nichts mehr wissen wollen (von)
• Italian: ricusare
• Russian: отрека́ться

• German: aufgeben
• Italian: abbandonare
• Russian: отступа́ться

• German: verzichten
• Italian: rinunciare

• German: verzichten
• Italian: arrendersi
• Russian: отка́зываться