English to French Meaning of forswear - renoncer

Forswear :

renoncer

verb

renoncer, se parjurer, Nier, refuser, nier, contredire, laisser, abandonner, omettre, renoncer à, ranger, vomir, rejeter, BackTrack, abdiquer, jeter

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Definitions of forswear in English

Verb(1) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

Examples of forswear in English

(1) But there's no requirement that people cease or forswear political opposition.(2) Though we had visited most of these harbors on previous cruises, the amount of port time encouraged us to forswear organized tours and strike out on our own.(3) They must forswear the use of race as a political weapon.(4) he would never forswear the religion of his people(5) Once again, I am faced with the choice of vices to forswear , in the spirit of turning over a new leaf.(6) Over the past 20 years, incentives have been used to successfully encourage other emergent and existing nuclear weapons powers to forswear the bomb, making the world a much safer place.(7) No appreciable number of people is really leaving, but if they are made to forswear any attention to or involvement in the whole sordid mess going forward, something similar is accomplished.(8) They had to forswear violence, to wind up their paramilitary wing and to proceed to completion with the process of disarmament.(9) It forswears the use of commercial plutonium as a fuel, because of proliferation risks.(10) They were the toilers and savers of the economic miracle generation who forswore luxuries in the austere postwar decades to reserve their place in the sun towards the end of their lives.(11) ├ö├ç├┐It is the Lord's will that I forswear myself ,├ö├ç├û he said.(12) Berowne says that he has no problem subscribing to a decree that can be forsworn on mere necessity, and he signs the document.(13) In the late '70s, Fischer gave up on revolutionary socialism and forswore violence as a political tool.(14) Firstly, he has forsworn the easy Saturday Night Fever route of replicating the original's songs in the stage version.(15) By Article Nine of its constitution, Japan is forbidden to posses military forces, and forever forswore war as a means to achieve anything.(16) So acting on the above premise I forswore the two staples from my diet - and bread potatoes.

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Synonyms

Verb

1. renounce ::

renoncer

2. relinquish ::

renoncer

3. reject ::

rejeter

4. forgo ::

renoncer

5. disavow ::

désavouer

6. abandon ::

abandonner

7. deny ::

Nier

8. repudiate ::

répudier

9. give up ::

abandonner

10. wash one's hands of ::

se laver les mains

11. eschew ::

éviter

12. abstain from ::

s'abstenir de

13. refrain from ::

se retenir de

14. kick ::

donner un coup

15. pack in ::

emballer dans

16. quit ::

quitter

17. swear off ::

jurer de renoncer à

18. disaffirm ::

désavouer

19. forsake ::

abandonner

20. abjure ::

abjurer

21. abnegate ::

renoncer à

Different Forms

forswear, forswearing, forswears

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