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- DictionaryDe·nounce/dəˈnouns/
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- 1. publicly declare to be wrong or evil: "the Assembly denounced the use of violence"
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to condemn or censure openly or publicly: to denounce a politician as morally corrupt. Synonyms: brand, blame, stigmatize, attack. Antonyms: commend, praise. to make a formal accusation against, as to the police or in a court.
Definition of denounce verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to publicly criticize someone or something, or to publicly accuse someone of something: They've been denounced as terrorists. (Definition of denounce from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
denounce definition: to publicly criticize someone or something, or to publicly accuse someone of something: . Learn more.
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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”).
IPA(key): /diˈnaʊns/, /dəˈnaʊns/Rhymes: -aʊnsdenounce (third-person singular simple present denounces, present participle denouncing, simple past and past participle denounced) 1. (transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare. 1.1. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 35, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes[…], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Si...
“denounce”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.“denounce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.1. To condemn openly as being wrong or reprehensible. See Synonyms at criticize. 2. To inform against (someone); accuse publicly. 3. To give formal announcement of the ending of (a treaty).
denounce meaning, definition, what is denounce: to express strong disapproval of someone...: Learn more.
