renounce vs validate

renounce

verb
  • To surrender formally some right or trust. 

  • 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 decline further association with someone or something, disown. 

noun
  • An act of renouncing. 

validate

verb
  • To render valid. 

  • To check or prove the validity of; verify. 

  • To have its validity successfully proven. 

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