Denounced meaning : To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare. 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 make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse. To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of. To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice. To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.