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verb
To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: herald, make known, promulgate, report, sound
Antonyms: none provided
verb
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: attack, charge, condemn, criticize, damn, decry, discredit, inveigh against, proscribe, accuse, atwite, blame, bumble, challenge, cop out, defame, denounce, fault, finger, inculpate, lay at someone's door, lay on, lay something at the feet of, patronize, point the bone, put it to, put the blame on, shend, twit, wite, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, slash, lash, scorch, blast, berate, berisp, castigate, censure, chastise, chew out, chide, denunciate, deprecate, derogate, dispraise, drag, dress down, eat someone alive, excoriate, find fault, fulminate, get at, get down, get up, give somebody a piece of one's mind, give somebody what-for, inveigh, lace into, lambaste, lay into, lecture, light into, objurgate, pooh-pooh, put someone on blast, rate, read somebody the riot act, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, savage, scold, skewer, slam, slate, tear into, tell off, threap, tick off, tosh, keelhaul, upbraid, vilify, vituperate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, historical
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
speak out against
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
Narrower terms: fulminate, rail, condemn, reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriate
verb
give away information about somebody
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inform
Narrower terms: sell out
verb
announce the termination of, as of treaties
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: announce, denote
verb
to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, mark
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: label
History
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.
Across languages
106 source translations are retained for this English entry.
