renounce

Other forms of renounce

past tense

renounced·

present participle

renouncing·

third person

renounces·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about renounce

What does renounce mean?

renounce means "give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in renounce?

renounce has 2 syllables: re-nounce. The stress falls on "nounce". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈnaʊns/.

What is another word for renounce?

Close synonyms include abdicate, vacate, resign, give up, foreswear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is renounce a common word?

renounce is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with renounce?

4 words rhyme with renounce. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.