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

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renounce

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Source Word

renounce

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɹɪˈnaʊns/

Verb

transitive intransitive

Japanese Meaning

放棄する / 断念する / 関係を断つ

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After much reflection, she decided to renounce her claim to the family estate.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

よく考えた末、彼女は家族の財産に対する権利を放棄することに決めた。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.

to renounce a title to land or to a throne

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To cast off, repudiate.

This world I do renounce, and in your sights

Shake patiently my great affliction off.

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Sense（3）

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

Sense（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.

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