renounced
Formally gave up
Renounced is the past tense of renounce, meaning to formally give up or reject something—a claim, right, belief, or allegiance.
The word carries weight and finality: She renounced her citizenship, He renounced violence after years in the movement.
What's renounced is typically something once held or valued, now deliberately abandoned.
Formally rejected or denied
- abjuredFormally rejected or renounced
- recantedWithdrew a stated belief
- retractedWithdrew a prior statement
- forsworeRenounced under oath
denied · disclaimed · disowned · rejected · refuted · contradicted · reversed
Completely abandoned or discarded
- desertedLeft behind, uninhabited
- relinquishedGave up possession of
- leftDeparted or portside
- vacatedLeft a place empty
withdrawn · discarded · neglected · surrendered · dropped · released · divested · yielded
Yielded to circumstances
Rejected with contempt
- refusedDeclined to accept
- declinedRefused or diminished
- rebuffedRejected someone's advances
- dismissedReleased from duty
shunned · eschewed · snubbed · repulsed · disregarded · scorned
Left one's native country
- statelessWithout national belonging
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
- nationalityLegal belonging to country
- allegianceLoyalty owed to authority
emigrated · defected · naturalized · exile · diaspora · homeland · repatriation
Promised with gravity
- asceticOne who renounces indulgence
- monasticOf religious community life
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- abnegationRejection of oneself
fasting · penance · celibacy · detachment · ego · attachment · ordained · consecrated
repudiated
Formally rejected or denied
- abjuredFormally rejected or renounced
- recantedWithdrew a stated belief
- retractedWithdrew a prior statement
forswore · denied · disclaimed · disowned · rejected · refuted · contradicted · reversed
forsaken
Completely abandoned or discarded
- desertedLeft behind, uninhabited
- relinquishedGave up possession of
- leftDeparted or portside
vacated · withdrawn · discarded · neglected · surrendered · dropped · released · divested · yielded · ceded
resigned
Yielded to circumstances
spurned
Rejected with contempt
dismissed · shunned · eschewed · snubbed · repulsed · disregarded · scorned
expatriated
Left one's native country
- statelessWithout national belonging
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
- nationalityLegal belonging to country
allegiance · emigrated · defected · naturalized · exile · diaspora · homeland · repatriation
vowed
Promised with gravity
- asceticOne who renounces indulgence
- monasticOf religious community life
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
abnegation · fasting · penance · celibacy · detachment · ego · attachment · ordained · consecrated · devoted
- abandonmentabandon, abandoned, forsake, desert, leave
- surrenderedsurrendered, capitulated, yielded, conceded, submitted
- nullifiedvoided, annulled, invalidated, nullified, rescinded
renouncedmaintained
Kept in condition
continued · retained · kept · upheld · reaffirmed
renouncedasserted
Stated as fact
declared · proclaimed · professed · avowed · championed
- renounce the worldReject secular life entirely
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