To turn aside or away.
To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
To cast off, repudiate.
To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
To make a renunciation of something.
To give up, resign, surrender.
To surrender formally some right or trust.
An act of renouncing.