repudiate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1543; from Latin repudiātus, the perfect passive participle of repudiō (“to cast off, reject”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from repudium (“rejection, repudiation, divorce”).
Inflected forms:
form: repudiates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repudiating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repudiated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repudiated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.
gloss: To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: '[…] she dictated to Briggs a furious answer in her own native tongue, repudiating Mrs. Rawdon Crawley altogether […]'
gloss: To be repudiated.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: abjure
deny
disavow
disclaim
disown
forsay
forswear
renounce
repudiate
wash one's hands of
Antonyms: accept
own up
Related words: cast off
swear off
Derived words: refudiate
repudiation
repudiative
repudiator
repudiatory
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تَبَرَّأَ
roman: tabarraʔa
lang: Bulgarian
word: отричам се
roman: otričam se
lang: Finnish
word: kieltäytyä olemasta missään tekemisissä
lang: Finnish
word: sanoutua irti
lang: German
word: verleugnen
lang: German
word: verstoßen
lang: German
word: sich distanzieren
lang: German
word: zurückweisen
lang: German
word: sich verweigern
lang: Greek
word: απορρίπτω
roman: aporrípto
lang: Hungarian
word: tagad
lang: Latin
word: repudiō
lang: Macedonian
word: се о́ткаже
roman: se ótkaže
lang: Macedonian
word: о́дбие
roman: ódbie
lang: Polish
word: wyrzec się
lang: Polish
word: wyprzeć się
lang: Russian
word: отрека́ться
roman: otrekátʹsja
lang: Spanish
word: repudiar
lang: Spanish
word: desconocer
lang: Turkish
word: inkâr etmek