renounce
- Noun. (card games) An act of renouncing.
- Verb. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
- Verb. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
- Verb. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
- Verb. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
- Verb. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
- Verb. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
- Verb. (intransitive) (''cards'') To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
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