different between denounce vs comminate

English

Etymology

From Old French denuncier, from Latin d?n?nti? (“to announce, to denounce, to threaten”), from de + n?nti? (“to announce, to report, to denounce”), from n?ntius (“messenger, message”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?na?ns/, /d??na?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

denounce (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.
2. (transitive) 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

   • 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):

     Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.

3. (transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.

5. (transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
6. (US, historical) To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.

Synonyms

• attack, charge, condemn, criticize, damn, decry, discredit, inveigh against, proscribe, report

Related terms

• denunciate

Derived terms

• denouncement
• denouncer

Related terms

Translations

See also

• announce
• enounce
• pronounce
• renounce

References

• denounce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• denounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• enounced, unencode

English

Etymology

Latin comminat-, past participle stem of comminari, from com- + minari (“threaten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?m?ne?t/

Verb

comminate (third-person singular simple present comminates, present participle comminating, simple past and past participle comminated)

1. (transitive) To denounce or curse.
2. To threaten.

Italian

Verb

comminate

1. second-person plural present indicative of comminare
2. second-person plural imperative of comminare
3. feminine plural of comminato

Anagrams

• ammencito
• commentai

Latin

Participle

commin?te

1. vocative masculine singular of commin?tus