EGAVE

denounce

About 1.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
  2. verb 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
  3. verb To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
    to denounce a confederate in crime
  4. verb 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. verb To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
  6. verb To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.

Similar words

stigmatize betray tell on snitch give away mark shit shop brand stag

Often followed by

the it him them as and this his their a

Word family

denounced denouncement denouncements denouncer denouncers denounces denouncing

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