"refudiate" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: refudiates [present, singular, third-person], refudiating [participle, present], refudiated [participle, past], refudiated [past]
Etymology: Blend of refute + repudiate. Often associated with Sarah Palin's infamous lapsus linguae. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|refute|repudiate}} Blend of refute + repudiate Head templates: {{en-verb}} refudiate (third-person singular simple present refudiates, present participle refudiating, simple past and past participle refudiated)
  1. (nonstandard) To repudiate, to oppose. Tags: nonstandard
    Sense id: en-refudiate-en-verb-5YOca9IO Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1951, Rulon Wells, \"Predicting Slips of the Tongue\"; reprinted in Victoria Fromkin (editor), Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence, 1973, Walter de Gruyter, page 85",
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        {
          "ref": "1980 January 23, Report of Joint Commission on Prescription Drug Use, page 1",
          "text": "[…] their articles were read to determine whether the citation was to substantiate or refudiate the initial claim or was it a \"quote of acceptance\".",
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        {
          "ref": "1984, John Sladek, The Lunatics of Terra, Wildside Press LLC, published 2005, page 77",
          "text": "‘Captain Blip? Never,’ he said, without ceasing to calculate. ‘I refudiate that.’\n‘You what?’ Jane felt suddenly cold all over. ‘There’s no such word, Denny.’",
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          "ref": "1987, Mahabalagiri N. Hegde, Clinical Research in Communicative Disorders: Principles and Strategies, Little, Brown, page 317",
          "text": "The value of given data can and must be judged regardless of the hypothesis they are supposed to support or refudiate.",
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        {
          "ref": "1988 March 3, James Bilbray, quoted in Worldwide Narcotics Review of the 1988 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 9",
          "text": "I am going to do everything I can along with the Chairman to see this Congress refudiate the certification of certain countries that are not complying."
        },
        {
          "text": "a. 2008, Alan Moore writes in the subsection, Dr. Manhattan: Super-powers and the Superpowers, pg. iii, of Chapter IV, in Watchmen, \"The suggestion that the presence of a superhuman has inclined the world more towards peace is refudiated by the sharp increase in both Russian and American nuclear stockpiles since the advent of Dr. Manhattan.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 2010, David Segal quoting a marijuana seller, “When Capitalism Meets Cannabis”, in The New York Times, 2010 June 27, page BU1",
          "text": "Words are coined on the spot, like “refudiate,” and regular words are used in ways that make sense only in context."
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          "ref": "2010, Matt DeLong quoting Sarah Palin, “'Refudiating' Palin brings Shakespeare into Twitter exchange”, in the Washington Post, 2010 July 20",
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        "(nonstandard) To repudiate, to oppose."
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          "ref": "1980 January 23, Report of Joint Commission on Prescription Drug Use, page 1",
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        },
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          "ref": "a. 2010, David Segal quoting a marijuana seller, “When Capitalism Meets Cannabis”, in The New York Times, 2010 June 27, page BU1",
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        },
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          "ref": "2010, Matt DeLong quoting Sarah Palin, “'Refudiating' Palin brings Shakespeare into Twitter exchange”, in the Washington Post, 2010 July 20",
          "text": "Palin tweeted that \"peaceful Muslims\" should \"refudiate\" the New York mosque being built near Ground Zero. This prompted plenty of retweets at her expense -- \"refudiate,\" of course, is not a word."
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