English Dictionary

renounce

/ɹɪˈnaʊns/

verb

(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender. / (transitive) To cast off, repudiate. / (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.

He decided to renounce his title and live a simple life.

意味（1）

(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.

to renounce a title to land or to a throne

意味（2）

(transitive) To cast off, repudiate.

This world I do renounce, and in your sights

This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

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

His son Sidhartha had renounced material life and gone forth in search of enlightment. He received enlightment under a Bodhi tree at Gaya and became Buddha. Ashoka visited Gaya along with Upagupta and had darshan of Sambodhi.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.

He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.

Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.

意味（7）

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