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renounced

verb

past tense of renounce
1
as in resigned
to give up (as a position of authority) formally in wake of the corruption scandal, the congressman was forced to renounce his seat in the House

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2
as in withdrew
to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to) after another failed romance he vowed that he was renouncing the world and becoming a monk

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Recent Examples of renounced In 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat exchanged letters in which the PLO recognized Israel's right to exist and renounced violence and Israel recognized the PLO as representing the Palestinian people. — ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026 Yermolaiev has lived in the glitzy city state on the Mediterranean coast for several years, having left Ukraine and renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in 2019 to become a citizen of Cyprus. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026 Their virality comes at a time when the very generation that inspired them has largely renounced the label. — Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 11 Aug. 2026 China has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control. — Reuters, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2026 The Business Roundtable and several hundred business leaders publicly renounced it in 2019. — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026 In 2021, Princess Mako, the niece of the emperor and eldest child of Crown Prince Ashikino and Crown Princess Kiko, renounced her royal titles and left the imperial family in order to marry her college sweetheart, Kei Komuro. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026 What follows are dozens of examples of how those whose names are familiar (or aren’t) and legendary (or infamous) for their actions while representing the state have been embraced (or renounced) by the rest of the country and beyond. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026 Spiritually, His Holiness is an emanation, or tulku, of the bodhisattva Chenrezig, who renounced nirvana to help mankind. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for renounced
  1. resigned
  2. withdrew
  3. relinquished
  4. retracted
  5. abdicated
  6. denied
  7. repealed
  8. contradicted
Verb
  • Brad Wright, former UCLA and NBA player and El Camino Real Charter High’s board chair since 2020, has resigned amid mounting turmoil and investigations at the Woodland Hills school.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • For the next few minutes, the courtroom was silent, the gallery seemingly resigned to the conclusion and gravely awaiting the jury’s entrance so the judge could formally declare the mistrial.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of resigned
Verb
  • One candidate for the job, Tigers general manager Jeff Greenberg, publicly withdrew from consideration last week.
    — Max Bultman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Ingebrigtsen won the 5,000 on opening night but withdrew from the shorter race, saying his fitness wasn't good enough for two races so close together in the wake of Achilles surgery earlier this year.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of withdrew
Verb
  • Suwarso relinquished his standard four-ticket allocation for the game.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Fast forward two years, and Variety reported that Unwell had dropped Hot Mess and relinquished all rights to the show, giving Earle the freedom to pursue new opportunities.
    — Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of relinquished
Verb
  • When the refill is retracted, the Telegraph Key can also be pressed repeatedly, turning the mechanism into a satisfying tactile interaction even when the pen is not being used for writing.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2026
  • But the subtitle’s Hail Mary overtones hit everybody wrong, everywhere, all at once, and the movie quickly retracted it.
    — Michael Phillips, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of retracted
Verb
  • Considered too lenient toward the Germans, Marie-Adelaide abdicated in January 1919 in favor of her sister, Charlotte.
    — Giorgia Olivieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The popular king modernized the royal house but refused to follow in the footsteps of other aging monarchs who have abdicated in recent times.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of abdicated
Verb
  • That group, early on, looked for equity in the pages of the Arkansas Gazette's society section, urging the publication to feature Black brides, who had previously been denied photos on the section front.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The fundraising push came nearly two weeks after a judge denied Anthony’s request for a new trial.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of denied
Verb
  • At the same time, the agency repealed rules that regulate climate pollution from vehicles, which had been passed under the Biden administration to shift the industry toward hybrid and electric cars and trucks.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • None of those leaps repealed the trade-off between cost, weight and strength, but each one moved the curve, leading to today when a rider can buy a combination of light and strong that no amount of money could have purchased a generation ago.
    — Colby Proffitt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of repealed
Verb
  • But there was a problem—this hypothesis contradicted earlier studies of betel nut usage.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Both groups also introduced details that contradicted information presented initially at similar rates.
    — Jennifer Talarico, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of contradicted

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