denounce.
To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
Meaning & usage
To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
to denounce a confederate in crime
to denounce someone to the authorities
To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.
to denounce war; to denounce punishment
To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.
Where this word comes from
From Old French denuncier, from Latin dēnūntiō (“to announce, to denounce, to threaten”), from de + nūntiō (“to announce, to report, to denounce”), from nūntius (“messenger, message”). Doublet of denunciate.
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