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ender v. 1 depict, picture, represent, reproduce, portray, create,
produce, do, execute, make, accomplish, achieve: The artist
rendered this portrait of the family from a photograph. 2 make,
cause to be or become: The news of winning the lottery rendered
me speechless. 3 give (up), yield (up), surrender, relinquish,
resign, cede, deliver, hand over, tender, offer, proffer,
present, furnish, provide: The inscription on the tomb has
still not rendered up its secret. To Caesar will I render my
legions and my horse. 4 play, perform: She rendered a fugue
most beautifully on a harpsichord. 5 deliver, return: The jury
rendered a verdict of Guilty. 6 translate, decode, decipher,
transcribe, convert, explain, interpret, put, restate, reword,
rephrase: She rendered the passage into idiomatic English. 7
deliver, hand in, present, offer, proffer, furnish, provide,
tender: They rendered their invoice for the work already done.
8 Usually, Brit render down. melt, clarify, extract: The fat
must be rendered down before it can be used for making soap.
rendering n. depiction, showing, presentation, interpretation,
conception, version, rendition, representation, delineation,
portrayal, picture: This is the architect's rendering of what
the building will look like when completed.
rendition n. 1 performance, interpretation, execution, conception,
concept, understanding, construction, reading, rendering: I
have never before heard such an exquisite rendition of a Bach
cantata. 2 See rendering, above.
renegade n. 1 deserter, turncoat, heretic, defector, traitor, apostate,
Archaic renegado: The renegade has organized a conspiracy
against us.
--adj. 2 traitorous, treacherous, perfidious, treasonous,
apostate, heretical, disloyal: A renegade band of deserters has
turned against the army leaders.
renege v. 1 Cards revoke: When you renege you fail to follow suit. 2
go back on, back out, default, repudiate, go back on or break
(one's) promise or word, recant, abrogate, abjure, Slang welsh
(on): You swore you would keep your word, and now you're
reneging.