<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures</li><li>to give up by formal declaration: to renounce a claim</li><li>to repudiate; disown: to renounce one's son</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of renouncing</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to play a card of a different suit from that led</li><li>to abandon or give up a suit led</li><li>to fail to follow the suit led</li></ul>