leave (a job, post, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"
give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
If you renounce a belief or a way of behaving, you decide and declare publicly that you no longer have that belief or will no longer behave in that way. After a period of imprisonment she renounced terrorism
To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne
To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led
To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters