What is a synonym for "renounce"?

Common synonyms include: abandon, abdicate, abjure, decline, deny, desert.

Renounce

//ɹɪˈnaʊns// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Noun

Verb

1
To give up, resign, surrender. transitive
"to renounce a title to land or to a throne"
2
cast off wordnet
3
To cast off, repudiate. transitive
"This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off."
4
turn away from; give up wordnet
5
To decline further association with someone or something, disown. transitive

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6
leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily wordnet
7
To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration. transitive
"[…] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]"
8
give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations wordnet
9
To make a renunciation of something. intransitive
"He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood."
10
To surrender formally some right or trust. intransitive
"Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10."
11
To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led. intransitive