Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: denounce
IPA transcription: [dɪn'aʊns]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: denounce
    Meaning: speak out against; "He denounced the Nazis"
  • Synonyms: stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, denounce, mark
    Meaning: to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"
  • Synonyms: denounce
    Meaning: announce the termination of, as of treaties
Usage examples
  • I will expose you and denounce you to the world!
  • "I will denounce him!" exclaimed the young man hastily.
  • He could not now advance many steps, without spying eyes to track and denounce him.
  • Let us not hesitate to denounce as false this proposition which is presented to us as an axiom.
  • Still, when you speak of us Republicans, you do so only to denounce us as reptiles, or, at the best, as no better than outlaws.
  • What is, after all, this electoral reform which the people grasp at, as if it were a bait, and which so many ambitious persons either call for or denounce?
  • "Well, then, I should say, for instance," resumed Danglars, "that if after a voyage such as Dantes has just made, in which he touched at the Island of Elba, some one were to denounce him to the king's procureur as a Bonapartist agent"--