Definition of "renounce" in English

noun

1. (card games) An act of renouncing.

verb

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

   • to renounce a title to land or to a throne

2. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.

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

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

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

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

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