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repudiatingverbpresent participle of repudiate to declare not to be truevigorously repudiated the charge that she had lied on her résumé contradicting, denying, disaffirming, disallowing, disavowing, disclaiming, disconfirming, disowning, gainsaying, negating, negativing, refuting, rejecting traversingchallenging, confuting, disproving, rebuttingdisagreeing (with), disputing acknowledging, admitting, allowing, avowing, conceding, confirming, owning accepting, adopting, embracing, espousingaffirming, announcing, asserting, averring, claiming, declaring, maintaining, professing, submittingauthenticating, corroborating, substantiating, validating, verifying 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 denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disowning contradicting, disallowing, gainsaying, negating, negativing, refusing, rejectingchallenging, confuting, criticizing, disproving, rebutting, refutingdisputing, questioningabdicating, abjuring, recanting, renouncing, retracting washing one's hands of acknowledging, avowing, claiming, owning, recognizing accepting, adopting, embracing, espousingadmitting, conceding, confessing, grantingaffirming, announcing, asserting, averring, declaring, maintaining, professing, submittingauthenticating, confirming, corroborating, substantiating, validating, verifying to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree towe didn't like the terms, so we repudiated the contract balking (at), declining, deselecting, disapproving, negativing, nixing, passing, passing up, refusing, rejecting, reprobating, spurning, throwing out, throwing over, turning down blowing off, disdaining, rebuffing, scorning, scouting, shooting downoverruling, vetoingforbidding, prohibiting, proscribingdismissing, ignoringabstaining (from), forbearing, refraining (from)denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disputing, gainsayingstickingabjuring, forswearing(also foreswearing), recanting, renouncing, retracting, taking back, unsaying, withdrawingavoiding, bypassing, detouringcontradicting, denying, disowning, negatingcontroverting, disagreeing (with), disproving, disputing, rebutting, refutingbacking down, backing off, backtrackingdisallowing, recalling, reneging, revoking turning one's back on accepting, agreeing (to), approving condoning, countenancing, swallowing, toleratingadopting, embracing, receiving, taking, welcomingacceding, acquiescing, agreeing, assenting, consentingchoosing, handpicking, selectingespousing, supporting 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 abjuring, abnegating, forswearing(also foreswearing), recanting, reneging, renouncing, repealing, retracting, taking back, unsaying, withdrawing contradicting, denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, gainsaying, negating, negativingabandoning, bolting, forsaking, giving up, relinquishing, spurning, surrenderingcontroverting, disagreeing (with), disproving, disputing, rebutting, refutingbacking down, backing off, backtrackingdisallowing, recalling, revoking adhering (to) acknowledging, admitting, affirming, asserting, avowing, claiming, contending, declaring, maintaining, proclaiming, professing, stating, vouching, vowingbacking, confirming, defending, endorsing(also indorsing), espousing, maintaining, supporting, upholdingaccepting, adopting, embracing |