renounce
rih-NOWNSverbMeaning to formally give up a claim, right or habit
Memory hook re-NOUNCE: ANNOUNCE you GIVE IT UP. Standing on a chair at dinner, Grandpa Gus announces to the whole family, “I give up cookies forever!” He renounces sweets.
The prince renounced his right to the throne so he could become a painter.
In context After years of eating sweets at every meal, Grandpa renounced sugar entirely, announcing at dinner that he would never touch another cookie.
Similar give up, reject, abandon, forswear
Opposite claim, keep, embrace
From Latin renuntiare, “to report back, to give up”: re- (back) + nuntiare (to announce).