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renouncingverbpresent participle of renounce to give up (as a position of authority) formallyin wake of the corruption scandal, the congressman was forced to renounce his seat in the House abdicating, abnegating, ceding, relinquishing, resigning, stepping aside (from), stepping down (from), surrendering abjuring, demitting, denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, waivingforsaking, giving up, handing over, yieldingabandoning, deserting, quitting, vacating appropriating, arrogating, assuming, claiming, confiscatingseizing, taking over, usurping, wrestingdefending, guarding, protecting, safeguarding, securing to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to)after another failed romance he vowed that he was renouncing the world and becoming a monk abjuring, abnegating, forswearing(also foreswearing), recanting, reneging, repealing, repudiating, retracting, taking back, unsaying, withdrawing contradicting, denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, gainsaying, negating, negativingabandoning, bolting, forsaking, giving up, relinquishing, spurning, surrenderingcontroverting, disagreeing (with), disproving, disputing, rebutting, refutingbacking down, backing off, backtrackingdisallowing, recalling, revoking adhering (to) acknowledging, admitting, affirming, asserting, avowing, claiming, contending, declaring, maintaining, proclaiming, professing, stating, vouching, vowingbacking, confirming, defending, endorsing(also indorsing), espousing, maintaining, supporting, upholdingaccepting, adopting, embracing |