To make a renunciation of something.
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 give up, resign, surrender.
To surrender formally some right or trust.
To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
An act of renouncing.
To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
To provide justification for.
To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
To maintain or defend (a cause) against opposition.
To justify by providing evidence.