different between renounce vs rebuff
renounce
English
Etymology
From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renuntiare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???na?ns/
- Rhymes: -a?ns
Noun
renounce (plural renounces)
- (card games) An act of renouncing.
Related terms
- renunciation
Verb
renounce (third-person singular simple present renounces, present participle renouncing, simple past and past participle renounced)
- (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
- (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
- (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
- Synonyms: disown, repudiate; see also Thesaurus:repudiate
- (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
- (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
- (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
- 1870 William Dougal Christie, Memoir of John Dryden
- Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.
- 1870 William Dougal Christie, Memoir of John Dryden
- (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
Synonyms
- forsay
- forswear
Derived terms
- renounceable
- renouncement
- renouncer
Related terms
- announce
- denounce
- pronounce
Translations
References
- renounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
renounce From the web:
- what renounce mean
- what's renounce rights
- what renounce in tagalog
- renounce mean
- what renounce mean in arabic
- renounce what does it mean
- what is renounceable rights issue
- what does renounce citizenship mean
rebuff
English
Etymology 1
From Middle French rebuffer (compare French rebiffer).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???b?f/
- Rhymes: -?f
Noun
rebuff (plural rebuffs)
- A sudden resistance or refusal.
- He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.
- Repercussion, or beating back.
Translations
Verb
rebuff (third-person singular simple present rebuffs, present participle rebuffing, simple past and past participle rebuffed)
- To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
Translations
Etymology 2
re- +? buff
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i??b?f/
Verb
rebuff (third-person singular simple present rebuffs, present participle rebuffing, simple past and past participle rebuffed)
- (transitive) To buff again.
Anagrams
- buffer
rebuff From the web:
- what rebuff means
- what rebuffed means
- rebuffed what does it mean
- rebuff what does that mean
- what does rebuke mean
- what does rebuffering stream mean
- what do rebuff mean
- what does rebuff someone mean
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- renounce vs rebuff
- peep vs scrutinize
- pertinent vs adaptable
- condensed vs transistory
- spunky vs valiant
- clouded vs tarnished
- block vs counteract
- inform vs rehearse
- unusually vs immoderately
- abominable vs scoundrelly
- farce vs mimicry
- high-tail vs lunge
- obnoxious vs attacking
- modest vs little
- dark vs difficult
- discharge vs pronounce
- utter vs impart
- factual vs apt
- tubby vs bulky
- dart vs swagger