(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
Used in a Sentence
renounced
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for renounced.
Editorial note
Just playing devils advocate, he had renounced violence by the time he joined academia hadn't he?
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Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of renounced gathered in one view.
(transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
(transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for renounced.
verb
(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
verb
(transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
verb
(transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
verb
(transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
Example sentences
Just playing devils advocate, he had renounced violence by the time he joined academia hadn't he?
Several prominent racists of the KKK era, including people like Robert Byrd and George Wallace, ultimately renounced their earlier views.
You have to have citizenship elsewhere before the US will recognize you having renounced its citizenship.
That won't work for some capabilities because some can't be added back once they've been renounced.
That this world, with all these things that all their ancestors spent their lives building, is stupid and should be renounced.
So he was being publicly shamed and humiliated until he A) was fired B) resigned or C) renounced his personal beliefs?
I should note that Arc System Works has also renounced Pixel Art as per Guilty Gear Xrd.
He could have been a brazilian citizen, but he renounced his citizenship to avoid Brazil's mandatory military service, which to this day is still mandatory.
Has anyone heard of many homeopathists who have renounced their ways?
Daniel Suelo renounced money in 2000, left his last $30 in a phone booth and walked into the desert to start a new life in Moab, Utah.
You can still be affected by this even if you are completely disentangled from the US in every way aside from not having explicitly renounced your citizenship.
So perhaps ~0.04% of Americans abroad renounced citizenship annually.
Quote examples
The rump "Aleph" group is a shadow of its former self, has renounced their predecessor's tactics, and is very heavily monitored.
I still own Apple hardware; but caught between the scylla of Apple's incompetence and the charybdis of Google's obliviousness (if not outright evilness), I have renounced the "cloud".
You might think that, but it's a fact that he managed to move the debate from "more austerity to repay all" to "the unsustainable debt has to be renounced".
I understand your opinion that the numbers of Americans who have renounced citizenship for tax reasons is "nontrivial," but I hope I make clear, as an American who has lived overseas among many other expatriate Americans, and who still keeps up regular contact with many expatriate Americans who derive all their income from overseas work, that I think the reported numbers are indeed trivial.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use renounced in a sentence?
Just playing devils advocate, he had renounced violence by the time he joined academia hadn't he?
What does renounced mean?
(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
What part of speech is renounced?
renounced is commonly used as verb.