renounce
/ɹɪˈnaʊns/ verb C2- To give up, resign, surrender. · to renounce a title to land or to a throne
- 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 surrender formally some right or trust.
- To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
He/she/it renounces · Past renounced · Past participle renounced · -ing form renouncing
Verb forms
- Base form
- renounce
- He/she/it
- renounces
- Past
- renounced
- Past participle
- renounced
- -ing form
- renouncing
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“I once thought,” continued Faria, “of removing these iron bars, and letting myself down from the window, which, as you see, is somewhat wider than yours, although I should have enlarged it still more preparatory to my flight; however, I discovered that I should merely have dropped into a sort of inner court, and I therefore renounced the project altogether as too full of risk and danger.
“Madame,” said Villefort, “believe me, a fortune of 900,000 francs is not so easily renounced.”
“She could, nevertheless, make up her mind to renounce the world, sir, since it is only about a year ago that she herself proposed entering a convent.”
d’Épinay, in order to give him the opportunity of himself renouncing his claim to the hand of Mademoiselle de Villefort.”
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