Renounced Synonyms and Antonyms

Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. repudiated
  2. disowned
  3. recanted
  4. rejected
  5. discarded
  6. disavowed
  7. disclaimed
  8. resigned
  9. waived
  10. retracted
  11. rescinded
  12. relinquished
  13. denied
  14. redone
  15. quitted
  16. forsworn
  17. forsaken
  18. forgone
  19. deserted
  20. defected
  21. ceased
  22. apostatized
  23. abjured
  24. abdicated
  25. abandoned
  26. vacated
Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. abdicated
To decide or declare that one will no longer engage in (a practice) or use (something):
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. relinquished

Renounced Sentence Examples

  • He now renounced all further efforts on the Pretender's behalf.'

  • By the same treaty France renounced its sphere of influence on the right bank of the Mekong.

  • Doubtless with the object of expanding the flourishing foreign trade of Samos, he entered into alliance with Amasis, king of Egypt, who, according to Herodotus, renounced his ally because he feared that the gods, in envy of Polycrates' excessive good fortune, would bring ruin upon him and his allies.

  • In 855 he became seriously ill, and despairing of recovery renounced the throne, divided his lands between his three sons, and on the 23rd of September entered the monastery of Prum, where he died six days later.

  • And Napoleon, shedding tears before his Old Guards, renounced the throne and went into exile.

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