Repudiate

/ɹɪˈpjuː.di.eɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
2. (transitive) To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.
3. (transitive) To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
4. (intransitive) To be repudiated.
5. (as a participle, of a woman) Repudiated by a husband, divorced.
6. (of a woman) Repudiated after betrothal or engagement.
7. (generally) Set aside, rejected.
8. A divorced wife.

Example Sentences

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

It was not enough just to shoot the Old Bolsheviks; Stalin had to have the show trials. He had to demonstrate publicly that these men of enormous energy and spirit were so utterly broken as to openly repudiate themselves and all they had fought for.

I disagreed completely—and still do—with President Nixon's initiative to "normalize" relations with the People's Republic of China. The American people—against the will of the majority, if the polls are correct—have been forced to go along with the Carter administration's decision to repudiate our mutual defense treaty with the free Chinese regime on Taiwan, and to give Peking the diplomatic and economic muscle to seriously impair the security and prosperity of the seventeen million people on the island. This is a strange way to reward a loyal ally whose hardworking and creative citizens have made their country a model success story for the capitalistic free-enterprise system.

Chaucer […] not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

The seventeenth century sometimes seems for more than a moment to gather up and to digest into its art all the experience of the human mind which (from the same point of view) the later centuries seem to have been partly engaged in repudiating.

'[…] she dictated to Briggs a furious answer in her own native tongue, repudiating Mrs. Rawdon Crawley altogether […]'

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• repudiates
• repudiating
• repudiated
• more repudiate
• most repudiate

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