Meaning

7 senses
  1. (transitive)To give up, resign, surrender.

    to renounce a title to land or to a throne

    aufgeben

    сдава́тьsdavátʹ, сда́тьsdátʹ, отка́зываться отotkázyvatʹsja ot

    turn away from; give up

  2. (transitive)To cast off, repudiate.

    cast off

  3. (transitive)To decline further association with someone or something, disown.

    verleugnen, desavouieren, abstreiten

    отрека́тьсяotrekátʹsja, отре́чьсяotréčʹsja, отверга́тьotvergátʹ

  4. (transitive)To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.

    aufgeben

    отступа́тьсяotstupátʹsja, отступи́тьсяotstupítʹsja

  5. (intransitive)To make a renunciation of something.

    verzichten

  6. (intransitive)To surrender formally some right or trust.

    verzichten

    отка́зыватьсяotkázyvatʹsja, отказа́тьсяotkazátʹsja

  7. (intransitive)To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

Examples

21 sentences
  1. He renounced the ownership of the land.

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  2. Tom renounced his claim to the property.

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  3. I can't believe he renounced his U.S. citizenship.

    ruПоверить не могу, что он отказался от американского гражданства!

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  4. Tom wants to renounce his citizenship.

    ruТом хочет отказаться от гражданства.

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  5. How difficult is it to renounce your citizenship?

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 4
give up:
decline association with:
abandon, forsake an action:
surrender a right or trust:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
give up:
decline association with:
make renunciation:

Origin

From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō. Doublet of renunciate.

From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō. Doublet of renunciate.

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Forms

renounces, renouncing, renounced, renounced
Base formrenounce · to renounce
3rd person singularrenounces
Present participlerenouncing
Past simplerenounced
Past participlerenounced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrenounce
he, she, itrenounces

Past simpleLesson

all personsrenounced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave renounced
he, she, ithas renounced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill renounce

Synonyms

18 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words

See also

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