de-, 向下，强调。-nounce, 通知，呼喊，词源同announce, pronounce. 即向下喊，引申词义谴责。

1. Ministers took the floor to denounce the decision to suspend constitutional rule.

几位部长发言谴责暂停宪制的决定。

2. We should denounce a heresy.

我们应该公开指责异端邪说.

3. Within days of his death those same people were falling over themselves to denounce him.

他尸骨未寒，还是那些人又大肆谴责起他来。

4. The opposition parties called a press conference to denounce the actions of the police.

各反对党召开新闻发布会，公开抨击了警方的行为。

5. The letter called for trade union freedom and civil rights, but did not openly denounce the regime.

这封信呼吁保障工会自由和公民权利，但没有公开谴责该政权。