different between denounce vs revie

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

re- +? vie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?va?/

Verb

revie (third-person singular simple present revies, present participle revying, simple past and past participle revied)

1. (obsolete) To vie with, or rival, in return.
2. (obsolete) To exceed an adversary's wager in a card game.

   • here's a trick vied and revied!

3. (obsolete) To make a retort; to bandy words.

Anagrams

• reive, rieve, verie