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repudiateverb to declare not to be truevigorously repudiated the charge that she had lied on her résumé contradict, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disconfirm, disown, gainsay, negate, negative, refute, reject traversechallenge, confute, disprove, rebutdisagree (with), dispute acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, concede, confirm, own accept, adopt, embrace, espouseaffirm, announce, assert, aver, claim, declare, maintain, profess, submitauthenticate, corroborate, substantiate, validate, verify to refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as one's responsibilitythe angry mother bitterly repudiated her teenaged daughter, telling her that she never wanted to see or hear from her again deny, disavow, disclaim, disown contradict, disallow, gainsay, negate, negative, refuse, rejectchallenge, confute, criticize, disprove, rebut, refutedispute, questionabdicate, abjure, recant, renounce, retract wash one's hands of acknowledge, avow, claim, own, recognize accept, adopt, embrace, espouseadmit, concede, confess, grantaffirm, announce, assert, aver, declare, maintain, profess, submitauthenticate, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, validate, verify to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree towe didn't like the terms, so we repudiated the contract balk (at), decline, deselect, disapprove, negative, nix, pass, pass up, refuse, reject, reprobate, spurn, throw out, throw over, turn down blow off, disdain, rebuff, scorn, scout, shoot downoverrule, vetoforbid, prohibit, proscribedismiss, ignoreabstain (from), forbear, refrain (from)deny, disavow, disclaim, dispute, gainsaystickabjure, forswear(also foreswear), recant, renounce, retract, take back, unsay, withdrawavoid, bypass, detourcontradict, deny, disown, negatecontrovert, disagree (with), disprove, dispute, rebut, refuteback down, back off, backtrackdisallow, recall, renege, revoke turn one's back on accept, agree (to), approve condone, countenance, swallow, tolerateadopt, embrace, receive, take, welcomeaccede, acquiesce, agree, assent, consentchoose, handpick, selectespouse, support to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to)the producers of the hit TV show threatened to take the disgruntled actor to court if he attempted to repudiate his contract abjure, abnegate, forswear(also foreswear), recant, renege, renounce, repeal, retract, take back, unsay, withdraw contradict, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, gainsay, negate, negativeabandon, bolt, forsake, give up, relinquish, spurn, surrendercontrovert, disagree (with), disprove, dispute, rebut, refuteback down, back off, backtrackdisallow, recall, revoke adhere (to) acknowledge, admit, affirm, assert, avow, claim, contend, declare, maintain, proclaim, profess, state, vouch, vowback, confirm, defend, endorse(also indorse), espouse, maintain, support, upholdaccept, adopt, embrace decline, refuse, reject, repudiate, spurn mean to turn away by not accepting, receiving, or considering.decline often implies courteous refusal especially of offers or invitations.declined his party's nomination refuse suggests more positiveness or ungraciousness and often implies the denial of something asked for.refused to lend them the money reject implies a peremptory refusal by sending away or discarding.rejected the manuscript as unpublishable repudiate implies a casting off or disowning as untrue, unauthorized, or unworthy of acceptance.teenagers who repudiate the values of their parents spurn stresses contempt or disdain in rejection or repudiation.spurned his overtures of friendship in 1545 |