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renegade (s) (noun), renegades (pl)
1. Someone who rejects his or her religion, a cause, an allegiance, or a group for another one: The politician was considered to be a renegade when he switched political parties.
2. A person or something that causes trouble and cannot be controlled: The teacher had to send a student to the principal because he was behaving like a renegade.
3. Etymology: from Latin renegatus, "renounced"; from renegare, "to deny"; from re-, "again" + negare, "to deny."
Someone who is a traitor.
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