Renounce

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To give up (a title, for example), especially by formal announcement. See Synonyms at relinquish.
  • v. To reject; disown.
  • verb-intransitive. Games To revoke in cards.
  • n. Games A revoke in cards.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An act of renouncing.
  • v. To give up, resign, surrender.
  • v. To cast off, repudiate.
  • v. To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
  • v. To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
  • v. To make a renunciation of something.
  • v. To surrender formally some right or trust.
  • v. (cards) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim.
  • v. To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
  • v. To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
  • verb-intransitive. To make renunciation.
  • verb-intransitive. To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
  • n. Act of renouncing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To declare against; disown; disclaim; abjure; forswear; refuse to own, acknowledge, or practise.
  • To cast off or reject, as a connection or possession; forsake.
  • In card-playing, to play (a suit) different from what is led: as, he renounced spades.
  • To declare a renunciation.
  • In card-games in which the rule is to follow suit, to play a card of a different suit from that led; in a restricted sense, to have to play a card of another suit when the player has no card of the suit led. Compare revoke.
  • n. In card-games in which the rule is to follow suit, the playing of a card of a different suit from that led.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
  • v. turn away from; give up
  • v. cast off
  • v. leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
  • Verb Form
    renounced    renounces    renouncing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    vacate    give up    resign   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    disclaim    give up    forsake    cast off    abdicate    abjure    resign    disavow    quit    disown   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    announce    bounce    denounce    flounce    mispronounce    ounce    pounce    pronounce    trounce