Definition of renounce

• v. t. - To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.
• v. t. - To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
• v. t. - To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
• v. i. - To make renunciation.
• v. i. - To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
• n. - Act of renouncing.