renounce

About 1.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An act of renouncing.
2. verb To give up, resign, surrender.

   to renounce a title to land or to a throne

3. verb To cast off, repudiate.
4. verb To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
5. verb To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
6. verb To make a renunciation of something.
7. verb To surrender formally some right or trust.
8. verb To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

Similar words

abdicate relinquish resign foreswear quit give up repudiate vacate abjure forswear

Often followed by

the his all their it her its them this

Word family

renounced renouncement renouncements renouncer renouncers renounces renouncing