Repudiate

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  • transitive verb. To reject the validity or authority of.
  • transitive verb. To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust.
  • transitive verb. To refuse to recognize or pay.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To disown (a child, for example).
  • transitive verb. To refuse to have any dealings with.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To put away; divorce.
  • To cast away; reject; discard; renounce; disavow.
  • To refuse to acknowledge or to pay, as a debt; disclaim.
  • Repudiated.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
  • transitive verb. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
  • transitive verb. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
  • verb. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
  • verb. To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cast off
  • verb. refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  • verb. reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust
  • verb. refuse to recognize or pay
  • Word Usage
    "Will demands that John McCain repudiate John Hagee be balanced by calls for Barack Obama to distance himself from James Carroll?"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    decline  deny  refuse  reject  
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