Denounce

Definition: Denounce

Denounce

Verb

1. Speak out against; "He denounced the Nazis".

2. To accuse or condemn openly or formally: "He denounced the government action.".

3. Announce the termination of, as of treaties.

4. Give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "denounce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Note: Denounce \De*nounce"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Denounced; present participle verb or noun Denouncing.]. (references)

Synonyms: Denounce

Accusation

Inform against, indict, denounce, arraign; impeach, appeach; have up, show up, pull up; challenge, cite, lodge a complaint; prosecute, bring an action against; blow upon.

Detraction

Impugn; assail, attack; oppose; denounce, accuse.

Disapprobation

Accuse; impeach, denounce; hold up to reprobation, hold up to execration; expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize; show up, pull up, take up; cry "shame" upon; be outspoken; raise a hue and cry against.

Malediction

Execrate, beshrew, scold; anathematize; (censure); bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; threaten.

Crosswords: Denounce

Shea in the famous play, The bells even the sound of bells may denounce a murderer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

France reserves the option of substituting herself as regards the rights and obligations resulting from agreements arrived at between the Government of Alsace-Lorraine and the Grand Duchy of Baden concerning the works to be carried out on the Rhine; she may also denounce such agreements within a term of five years dating from the coming into force of the present Treaty. (reference)

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Let us denounce the face and tear off the mask

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Economic History

Morocco

Morocco also was among the first Arab and Islamic states to denounce the September 11, 2000 terrorist attacks in the United States and declare solidarity with the American people in the war against terrorism. (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

Hundreds of villagers were rounded up, driven to remote areas, and forced to chant ZANU-PF slogans or denounce the opposition until the next morning. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

Backed by crowds of 100 to 200 persons, the mullahs purportedly denounce Ahmadis and their founder, a situation that sometimes leads to violence. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Prisoners who resisted the political reeducation imposed by prison authorities, particularly demands to denounce the Dalai Lama and accept Gyaltsen Norbu, the boy recognized by the Government as the Panchen Lama, also reportedly were beaten. (references)

China

Monks who refused these terms risked expulsion from their monasteries; others were forced to leave their monasteries after failing to pass exams on these topics or being found "politically unqualified;" others leave "voluntarily" rather than denounce the Dalai Lama. (references)

China

According to regulations posted at the entrances of many monasteries, monks are required to be "patriotic," and authorities require monks to: Sign a declaration agreeing to reject independence for Tibet; reject Gendun Choekyi Nyima, the boy recognized by the Dalai Lama as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama; reject and denounce the Dalai Lama; recognize the unity of China and Tibet; and not listen to the Voice of America. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "denounce": denounce one another. Additional references.

Afrikaans

aangee (accord, accuse, give, pass, spend), aanbring (accuse, bring, fetch). (various references)

Albanian

dënoj (be exiled, castigate, censure, condemn, criminate, damn, declaim, delate, deprecate, discipline, doom, penalize, proscribe, punish, rap, reprehend, sentence, trounce), shpall i pavlefshëm, profetoj, prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), kallëzoj (delate, inform, inform against, narrate, peach, rat, report, sneak, snitch, squeak, tell on), kërcënoj (blackmail, browbeat, bulldoze, impend, menace, threaten), hedh fall (tell fortunes), gjykoj (adjudge, adjudicate, arbitrate, consider, damn, daresay, impeach, judge, look in the matter, reason, referee, think about, try, umpire), falltoj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏إتهم (accuse, arraign, bang, charge, complain, delate, take to task, tax), ‏إستنكر (censure, deprecate, disapprove, mow, reprobate, reprove, show up), ‏أبلغ (announce, communicate, convey, notify, report), ‏شعر رسميا بشجب, ‏شجب (condemn, condemnation, decry, denouncement, denunciation, excoriation, execrate, fulminate, rail, reprehend, stigmatize). (various references)

Bulgarian 

осъждам (adjudge, be naughty, blame, condemn, convict, damn, deplore, doom, rap, reprehend, sentence), отричам (abnegate, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, proscribe, renounce, repudiate, retract, testify against), обявявам за невалиден, предавам (carry, convey, deliver, get through, give, give in, give over, give up, hand in, hand over, impart, pass along, pass in, pass round, put out, render, reproduce, resign, sell down the river, sell out, send, send on, send out, submit, transfuse, turn over, yield), изобличавам (nail, show up), издавам (betray, bring out, condemn, delate, disclose, divulge, emit, enact, give, give away, hand down, issue, leak, loose, proclaim, produce, publish, put forth, put out, send forth, spill, stick out, throw out, utter), денонсирам (renounce). (various references)

Chinese 

貶斥 (demote), 谴责 (Castigate, Castigated, Castigating, Condemn, Condemnation, Condemned, Condemning, Denounced, Denouncing, reprimand, reprimanded, Reprimanding), 駁斥 (deny, refute), 譴責 (condemn, criticize), 控訴 (accuse), 斥責 , 公開指責 . (various references)

Czech

denuncovat (inform against), vypovìdìt (annul, banish, declare, deport, discontinue, exile, expel, outlaw, proscribe, relegate, terminate, warn, warn off), veřejnì odsoudit, udat (inform, overstate, present, quote, rat, state), pranýřovat (censure, crucify, expose, pillory), osoèit, odsoudit (condemn, convict, criticize, judge, reprobate, sentence), kritizovat (criticize, pick holes in, speak against). (various references)

Danish

forråde (accuse), anklage (accuse), angive (accuse, indicate, point out, suggest). (various references)

Dutch

klikken (accuse, clap, click, rattle), aangeven (accord, accuse, convey, declare, give, hand, hand over, indicate, pass, point out, register, show, spend, state, suggest), aanbrengen (accommodate, accuse, adapt, adjust, apply, attune, bring, cover with, fetch, fit, fix, give an account, mount, place, put up, recruit, report, tune). (various references)

Esperanto

denunci. (various references)

Faeroese

melda (accuse), klaga (accuse). (various references)

Farsi 

کسی یاچیزی راننگین کردن , تقبیح کردن (Decry), علیه کسی اظهاری کردن . (various references)

Finnish

antaa ilmi (accuse). (various references)

French

dénoncer (to denounce), accuser (delate). (various references)

Frisian

oankleie (accuse), oanbringe (accommodate, accuse, adapt, adjust, attune, bring, fetch, fit, fix, give an account, mount, place, recruit, report, tune), ferkleie (accuse). (various references)

German

denunzieren (accuse, condemn, denunciate, inform against, inform on), brandmarken (brand, stigmatize), anzeigen (accuse, advertise, advertisements, announce, denote, display, give notice, indexes, indicate, inform against, inform on, institute legal proceedings against, notifications, notify, point, read, register, report, see, show, signal, to advertise, to indicate, to notify). (various references)

Greek 

καταγγέλνω, καταγγέλω (impeach, indict). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"וקיע (belie, disclose, divest, show up), ל�'� ות (censure, condemn, damn, defame, disapprove, dispraise, impute, put to shame, score, thumbs down). (various references)

Hungarian

feljelent (accuse, delate, report, to denounce, to report). (various references)

Indonesian

mengadukan (give a report, report, tell), mencela (blame, carp, condemn, decry, disapprove, disapprove of, knock, taunt), melaporkan (declare, report). (various references)

Italian

denunciare (accuse, declare, denote, reveal, tell on). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

非�'鳴らす (to cry against, to denounce publicly), 扱き下ろす　 (to abuse, to denounce, to disparage, to lambast), 扱き下ろす (to abuse, to denounce, to disparage, to lambast), 扱下ろす (to abuse, to denounce, to disparage, to lambast). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひ�'ならす (to cry against, to denounce publicly), �"きおろす (to abuse, to denounce, to disparage, to lambast). (various references)

Manx

obbal (abnegate; refusal, abnegation, abstain, abstention, decline, denial, denunciation, deny, disavow, disavowal, disclaim, disown, forbid, go against, jib, negate, negation, refuse, refusing, refutation, refute, self-denial, turn down, turn down refuse), ginsh er. (various references)

Norwegian

fordømme (condemn), avvise (discredit, flunk), angi. (various references)

Papiamen

denunsiá (accuse). (various references)

Pig Latin

enounceday.(various references)

Portuguese

denunciar (arraign, betray, delate, denunciate, detect, inform against, peach, snitch, tell), delatar (delate, denuntiate, inform against, peach, snitch). (various references)

Romanian

denunţa (accuse, delate, give up, split on). (various references)

Russian 

осуждать (condemn, convict, criminate, criticize, cry shame upon, damn, decry, deprecate, disapprove, excoriate, judge, preach down, prejudge, rebuke). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

denuncirati (delate), prokazati, potkazati (betray, snitch), otkazati (break down, call off, cancel), osuditi (censure, condemn, convict, damn, decry, deplore, deprecate, disapprove, excoriate, inveigh, slate), opanjkati (slander). (various references)

Spanish

denunciar (accuse, blow on, denuntiate, drive, inform, inform against, nark, shop, squeal), delatar (accuse, blow the whistle, inform), acusar (accuse, arraign, article, betoken, charge, contradict, delate, display, exhibit, incriminate, inculpate, pin on, register, tax). (various references)

Swedish

fördöma (blame, condemn, curse, damn, decry). (various references)

Turkish

kehanette bulunmak (augur, cast, divine, foretell, omen, oracle, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, soothsay, vaticinate), kınamak (blame, cast reflection on smb., castigate, censure, condemn, decry, disapprove, fault, remonstrate, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, slate, stigmatize, strafe), ihbar etmek (blow the whistle on, complain, delate, fink on, grass, grass on smb., inform, inform against, peach, peach against, peach on, put on the scent, rat, report, tell on smb., turn in, warn), geçersizliğini duyurmak, aleyhinde olmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

розривати (break, break away, develop, disrupt, divorce, outbreak, rupture, tear up), виражати погрозу, викривати (accuse, belie, debunk, inculpate, show up, unclose, unfrock, unmask), осуджувати (animadvert, criticize, damn, disapprove, disfavor, disfavour, dispraise, impeach, judge, reprehend, reprobate, reprove), обвинувачувати (accuse, argue, arraign, article, bill, delate, fault, impute, incriminate, inculpate, indict), попереджати (admonish, advertise, advertize, caution, exhort, notice, tip off, warn). (various references)

2. la. (various references)

criminator, defer, deferant, deferat, deferebant, deferebat, deferebatur, deferens, deferent, deferentes, deferes, deferet, deferetur, deferre, deferrent, deferrentur, deferte, delatae, delatura, delaturam, delatus, detulerant, detulerat, detulerunt, detuli, detulissent, detulisset, detulisti, detulit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "denounce": denounced, denouncement, denouncements, denouncer, denouncers, denounces. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Denounce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: debounce, Degoune, denouce. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: enounced.

-1 letter: enounce.

-2 letters: conned, donnee, encode, neoned, undone.

-3 letters: coden, coned, coude, deuce, donee, donne, douce, dunce, educe, endue, nonce, ounce, undee.

-4 letters: cede, code, coed, cone, conn, cued, deco, dene, done, duce, dune, need, nene, neon, node, none, noun, nude, once, unco, unde, undo.

-5 letters: cee, cod, con, cud, cue, dee, den, doc, doe, don.

+1 letter: denounced, denouncer, denounces, renounced.

+2 letters: denouncers, uncensored, unenclosed, unenforced.

+3 letters: encountered, tendencious, truncheoned, unconcealed, unconcerned, unconfessed, unconnected, unconquered, uncontested, unconverted.

+4 letters: confusedness, countenanced, countermined, countertrend, denouncement, endonuclease, nondeductive, nonnucleated, nonscheduled, preannounced, rencountered, unchaperoned, unconsidered, uncovenanted, undercounted, undocumented, unrecognized, unreconciled, unreinforced.

+5 letters: conduciveness, counterbidden, counterdemand, countermanded, countersigned, countertrends, deinonychuses, denouncements, endonucleases, mononucleated, nondeductible, overabundance, reencountered, uncompensated, unconcernedly, unconsecrated.