renoncer

to give up

Je croyais que tu avais renoncé au Home Shopping Network.	I thought you swore off the Home Shopping Network.
J’avais renoncé à comprendre pourquoi.	I gave up trying to understand why.
Mais j'y avais renoncé.	But I gave all that up.
Tu y avais renoncé à cause de notre mode de vie.	You only gave it up because of the way we lived.
Je pensais que tu avais renoncé à me traiter comme Audrey	I thought you had given up treating me like Audrey.
J'ai dit que tu avais renoncé aux biens matériels, mais il m'a pas cru.	I told him you became a monk and renounced all earthly possessions, but he didn't believe me!
J'y avais renoncé.	I know, I've given that up.
Mais j'ai été surpris d'apprendre que tu avais renoncé à la vie qui te plaisait tant autrefois.	But I was surprised by what they said, that you had abandoned the life that you once loved so much.
Avant notre pitoyable tentative de raser Thraben, j’avais renoncé à mon ancien territoire et je savais que rien ne m’attendait plus là-bas.	I abandoned my old territory before our pathetic attempt to raze Thraben and knew there would be nothing left for me there.
En Août 2005, j’avais renoncé au travail à temps partiel que j’avais et commencé sérieusement le satseva pour la préparation du lancement du site de SSRF.	By August 2005, I gave up even the part-time job that I had and earnestly started the satseva for the preparation of the launch of the SSRF website.