Renounce vs Adapt - What's the difference?
renounce | adapt |
To give up, resign, surrender.
To cast off, repudiate.
* Shakespeare
To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
To make a renunciation of something.
* Dryden
To surrender formally some right or trust.
* W. D. Christie
(card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
To change oneself so as to be adapted.
In lang=en terms the difference between renounce and adapt
is that renounce is to surrender formally some right or trust while adapt is to change oneself so as to be adapted.As verbs the difference between renounce and adapt
is that renounce is to give up, resign, surrender while adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.As a noun renounce
is (card games) an act of.As an adjective adapt is
adapted; fit; suited; suitable.renounce
English
Verb
(renounc)- to renounce a title to land or to a throne
- This world I do renounce , and in your sights / Shake patiently my great affliction off.
- He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
- Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced , his son Charles administered on June 10.
Derived terms
* renounceable * renouncement * renouncerReferences
*adapt
English
Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
