verb [VN]
1 ~ sb/sth (as sth) to strongly criticize sb/sth that you think is wrong, illegal, etc:
She publicly denounced the government's handling of the crisis. * The project was denounced as a scandalous waste of public money.
2 ~ sb (as sth) to tell the police, the authorities, etc. about sb's illegal political activities:
They were denounced as spies. * Many people denounced their friends and neighbours to the secret police.
seealsoDENUNCIATION
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for denounce is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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