To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).
To act as a legal prosecutor.
To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
To cast off, repudiate.
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.
To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
An act of renouncing.