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Difference Between Announce and Denounce

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Announce

To make known publicly.

Denounce

To condemn openly as being wrong or reprehensible.

Announce

To proclaim the presence or arrival of
Announce a caller.

Denounce

To inform against (someone); accuse publicly.

Announce

To provide an indication of beforehand; foretell
The invention of the microchip announced a new generation of computers.
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Denounce

To give formal announcement of the ending of (a treaty).

Announce

To serve as an announcer for
Announce a football game on TV.

Denounce

To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.

Announce

To declare one's candidacy
Was declared the front-runner even before she announced.

Denounce

(transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
To denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward
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Announce

To serve as an announcer.

Denounce

(transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
To denounce a confederate in crime
To denounce someone to the authorities

Announce

(transitive) To give public notice, especially for the first time; to make known.

Denounce

To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.
To denounce war; to denounce punishment

Announce

(transitive) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

Denounce

(transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.

Announce

(chiefly US):

Denounce

To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.

Announce

(transitive) To act as announcer for (an event, usually sports).
Our coach has retired, but occasionally he still announces the games.

Denounce

To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
Denouncing wrath to come.
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish.

Announce

(intransitive) To act or work as an announcer.
Our coach has retired, but occasionally he still announces.

Denounce

To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.
His look denounced desperate.

Announce

To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.

Denounce

To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
Denounced for a heretic.
To denounce the immoralities of Julius Cæsar.

Announce

To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
Publish laws, announceOr life or death.

Denounce

Speak out against;
He denounced the Nazis

Announce

Make known; make an announcement;
She denoted her feelings clearly

Denounce

To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful;
He denounced the government action
She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock

Announce

Announce publicly or officially;
The President declared war

Denounce

Announce the termination of, as of treaties

Announce

Give the names of;
He announced the winners of the spelling bee

Denounce

Give away information about somebody;
He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam

Announce

Foreshadow or presage

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