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renounce 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/riˈnouns/,
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renounced, past participle; renouncing, present participle; renounced, past tense; renounces, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Formally declare one's abandonment of (a claim, right, or possession)
    • - Isabella offered to renounce her son's claim to the French crown
  2. Refuse to recognize or abide by any longer
    • - these agreements were renounced after the fall of the czarist regime
  3. Declare that one will no longer engage in or support
    • - they renounced the armed struggle
  4. Reject and stop using or consuming
    • - he renounced drugs and alcohol completely
  5. Refuse or resign a right or position, esp. one as an heir or trustee
    • - there will be forms enabling the allottee to renounce
  1. abdicate: give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
  2. vacate: leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"
  3. foreswear: turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
  4. disown: cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"
  5. An act of renouncing; To give up, resign, surrender; To cast off, repudiate; To decline further association with someone or something, disown; To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration; To make a renunciation of something; To ...
  6. surrender, abandon, give up, repudiate, disown, withdraw from, refuse recognition, discontinue, forsake, resign right/position, put aside (by own decision), formally consent to …
  7. Disclaim, refuse to have anything to do with.