[di-nouns] 
| 1. | to condemn or censure openly or publicly: to denounce a politician as morally corrupt. |
| 2. | to make a formal accusation against, as to the police or in a court. |
| 3. | to give formal notice of the termination or denial of (a treaty, pact, agreement, or the like). |
| 4. | Archaic. to announce or proclaim, esp. as something evil or calamitous. |
| 5. | Obsolete. to portend. |
| de·nounce (dĭ-nouns') tr.v. de·nounced, de·nounc·ing, de·nounc·es
[Middle English denouncen, to proclaim, from Anglo-Norman denuncier and Medieval Latin dēnūntiāre, both from Latin : dē-, de- + nūntiāre, to announce (from nūntius, messenger; see neu- in Indo-European roots).] de·nounce'ment n., de·nounc'er n. |