denounce
verb /dɪˈnaʊns/
/dɪˈnaʊns/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they denounce | /dɪˈnaʊns/ /dɪˈnaʊns/ |
| he / she / it denounces | /dɪˈnaʊnsɪz/ /dɪˈnaʊnsɪz/ |
| past simple denounced | /dɪˈnaʊnst/ /dɪˈnaʊnst/ |
| past participle denounced | /dɪˈnaʊnst/ /dɪˈnaʊnst/ |
| -ing form denouncing | /dɪˈnaʊnsɪŋ/ /dɪˈnaʊnsɪŋ/ |
- to strongly criticize somebody/something that you think is wrong, illegal, etc.
- denounce somebody/something She publicly denounced the government's handling of the crisis.
- denounce somebody/something as something The project was denounced as a scandalous waste of public money.
Extra Examples- The government was bitterly denounced for the emergency measures.
- These new regulations have been widely denounced.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- angrily
- bitterly
- roundly
- …
- for
- to
- be widely denounced
- to tell the police, the authorities, etc. about somebody’s illegal political activities
- denounce somebody as something They were denounced as spies.
- denounce somebody (to somebody) Many people denounced their neighbours to the secret police.
- Someone in the village must have denounced them to the authorities.
see also denunciation
Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘proclaim’, also ‘proclaim someone to be wicked, a rebel, etc.’): from Old French denoncier, from Latin denuntiare ‘give official information’, based on nuntius ‘messenger’.