| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | de·nounce |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -nouns |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: de·nounced, de·nounc·ing, de·nounc·es
1. To condemn openly as being evil or reprehensible. See synonyms at criticize. 2. To accuse formally. 3. To give formal announcement of the ending of (a treaty). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English denouncen, to proclaim, from Anglo-Norman denuncierMedieval Latin d n nti re, both from Latin : d-, de- + nntire, to announce (from nntius, messenger; see neu- in Appendix I).| OTHER FORMS: | de·nouncement —NOUN
de·nouncer —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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