denounce
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denounce
- /diˈnaʊns/
- /dəˈnaʊns/
Rhymes with -aʊns
Where it comes from
From Old French denuncier, from Latin dēnūntiō (“to announce, to denounce, to threaten”), from de + nūntiō (“to announce, to report, to denounce”), from nūntius (“messenger, message”). Doublet of denunciate.
verb denounces · denouncing · denounced
- To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare. Nero[…]sent his Satellites or officers toward him, to denounce the decree of his death to him[…].
- To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame. to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward
- To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse. to denounce a confederate in crime
- To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of. to denounce war; to denounce punishment
- To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice. It would be possible to “denounce” (leave) the Convention altogether, but short of that, legislation to restore the death penalty would place the UK government in breach of its treaty obligations under the ECHR; it would breach international law.
- To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.
