RENOUNCING Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

renouncing

verb

present participle of renounce

as in relinquishing

to give up (as a position of authority) formally in wake of the corruption scandal, the congressman was forced to renounce his seat in the House

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as in withdrawing

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

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Recent Examples of renouncing Eric Lai, a senior fellow with the Georgetown Center for Asian Law, said every actor in Hong Kong civil society who assumed that renouncing violence and working within the law would be fine has to revise that assumption. — Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 That starts with renouncing the use of military intervention as a first resort and ending the practice of diplomacy by airstrike. — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 In these photographs, the maternal body enters spaces designed around seduction, aspiration, and idealized femininity without renouncing any of them. — Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2026 The 2019 Business Roundtable statement renouncing MSV changed rhetoric. — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026 Mark Ford Rosemary Tonks emulated French Symbolist poets before converting to Christianity and renouncing all her own works. — The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026 Corbett, of Palatine, announced his independent candidacy days after renouncing the current state of the Republican Party and dropping his consulting business work with GOP contenders. — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026 The program calls for the recognition of Israel and renouncing armed struggle, effectively sidelining Hamas and other factions. — Sam Metz, Arkansas Online, 26 Apr. 2026 Returning to the guitars that characterized the band’s earliest work without renouncing their latter-day synths, MacFarlane gives Graham’s ruminations an urgent tenderness. — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026

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But that would have meant Parton relinquishing half the publishing rights and therefore half the royalties.

— Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
America is the ultimate answer to the pogrom, and to the emancipation Europe offered on the condition of relinquishing Jewish ethnic and cultural distinctiveness.

— Rory Lancman, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of relinquishing

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During this period, Obayuwana allegedly tried to cash at least three Treasury tax refund checks worth $382,109 and was successful in cashing one, withdrawing $229,109, federal authorities allege.

— Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Mementum is trying to run from that fight by withdrawing its letter.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2026

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Inquest opens into death of 41-year-old former Cambridge sociology professor Jason Arday, found dead in south London days after resigning amid scrutiny of his record and credentials.

— Pan Pylas, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Republican Christine Moore served nearly 8 years in the seat before resigning her term early to unsuccessfully run for Apopka Mayor.

— Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of resigning

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Vivo and Oppo phones have relied on various gimmicks, like smaller gimbals and pop-out lenses, to improve camera performance, though not to the extent of a physically retracting gimbal.

— Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026
The remote control has mixed reviews, with this seemingly retracting from its otherwise glowing reviews.

— Tantse Walter, Space.com, 26 June 2026

Definition of retracting

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The film follows a daughter trying to accompany her mother through her final stage, navigating the challenge of remaining close without denying the loss or imposing a particular way of experiencing it.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026
Ridley Scott’s representatives are denying the recent report that the director blamed his Gladiator II star Paul Mescal for the film’s underwhelming box office numbers.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026

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The Council earlier this month approved an ordinance repealing a July measure that directed the city manager to assess living conditions at the apartments and make emergency repairs.

— Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026
That includes prohibiting the construction of AI data centers in rural Texas neighborhoods, reducing the impacts of data centers on local communities, and repealing sales tax exemptions and other incentives.

— Jack Fink, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of repealing

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