Usually means: Formally declare abandonment of something.
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  1. renounce: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. renounce: Merriam-Webster
  3. renounce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. renounce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. renounce: Collins English Dictionary
  6. renounce: Vocabulary.com
  7. Renounce, renounce: Wordnik
  8. renounce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. renounce: Wiktionary
  10. renounce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. renounce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. renounce: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. renounce: Dictionary.com
  14. renounce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. renounce: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Renounce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Renounce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. renounce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. renounce: Rhymezone
  20. renounce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. renounce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. renounce: FreeDictionary.org
  23. renounce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. renounce: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. renounce: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. renounce: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
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  4. renounce: Legal dictionary

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  1. renounce: Encyclopedia

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  1. renounce: Idioms

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noun:  (card games) An act of renouncing.
verb:  (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
verb:  (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
verb:  (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
verb:  (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
verb:  (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
verb:  (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

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