Definition of Denounce

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Denounce

To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.

To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.

Related Definitions:

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Denounce Quotations

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
Mason Cooley

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
Robert M. La Follette

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.
William Graham Sumner

The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.
Richard Neal

Denounce Translations

denounce in Danish is anklage
denounce in Dutch is aangeven, aanbrengen, klikken
denounce in Finnish is antaa ilmi
denounce in German is brandmarken
denounce in Spanish is delatar


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