"repudiate" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ɹɪˈpjuː.di.eɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation, US], /ɹəˈpjuː.di.eɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation, US] Audio: en-us-repudiate.ogg , en-au-repudiate.ogg Forms: repudiates [present, singular, third-person], repudiating [participle, present], repudiated [participle, past], repudiated [past]
Etymology: From Latin repudiātus, from repudiō (“I cast off, reject”), from repudium (“divorce”), 1540s. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|repudiātus}} Latin repudiātus Head templates: {{en-verb}} repudiate (third-person singular simple present repudiates, present participle repudiating, simple past and past participle repudiated)
  1. (transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny. Tags: transitive Synonyms: deny, contradict, gainsay, ;, refudiate Translations (to reject the truth of, deny): رَفَضَ (rafaḍa) (Arabic), ժխտել (žxtel) (Armenian), отричам (otričam) (Bulgarian), ontkennen (Dutch), malagnoski (Esperanto), kieltää (Finnish), sanoutua irti (Finnish), répudier (French), nier (French), verleugnen (english: sb./sth.) (German), abstreiten (German), leugnen (German), zurückweisen (German), αποκηρύσσω (apokirýsso) (Greek), tagad (Hungarian), visszautasít (Hungarian), negō (Latin), о́дбие (ódbie) (Macedonian), о́тфрли (ótfrli) (Macedonian), whawhati (Maori), whākorekore (Maori), whakakore (Maori), fornekte (Norwegian), odrzucić (Polish), отверга́ть (otvergátʹ) [neuter] (Russian), repudiar (Spanish), negar (Spanish), renegar (Spanish), rechazar (Spanish), reddetmek (Turkish), yalanlamak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-repudiate-en-verb-4JAF28Zb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 36 7 5 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 45 28 15 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 50 30 11 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 51 35 7 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 47 32 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 50 27 12 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 54 24 11 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 49 25 14 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 56 25 10 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 51 26 12 12 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 50 25 13 12 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 51 25 12 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 48 32 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 48 34 9 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 51 34 8 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 56 25 11 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 56 25 11 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 50 27 12 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 51 26 12 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 51 26 12 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 46 25 15 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 56 25 11 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 54 24 12 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 51 25 12 12 Disambiguation of 'to reject the truth of, deny': 69 20 9 1
  2. (transitive) To refuse to have any relation to; to disown. Tags: transitive Synonyms: disavow, forswear, repudiate
    Sense id: en-repudiate-en-verb-4sOxLzRb
  3. (transitive) To refuse to pay or honor (a debt). Tags: transitive Synonyms: welsh Translations (to refuse to pay a debt): kieltäytyä maksamasta (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-repudiate-en-verb-RxXS4uUX Disambiguation of 'to refuse to pay a debt': 9 34 56 2
  4. (intransitive) To be repudiated. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-repudiate-en-verb-3cyTIwVN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: abjure, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, forsay, forswear, renounce, repudiate, wash one's hands of Hyponyms: recant Translations (to refuse to have anything to do with): تَبَرَّأَ (tabarraʔa) (Arabic), отричам се (otričam se) (Bulgarian), kieltäytyä olemasta missään tekemisissä (Finnish), sanoutua irti (Finnish), verleugnen (German), verstoßen (German), sich distanzieren (German), zurückweisen (German), sich verweigern (German), απορρίπτω (aporrípto) (Greek), tagad (Hungarian), repudiō (Latin), се о́ткаже (se ótkaže) (Macedonian), о́дбие (ódbie) (Macedonian), wyrzec się (Polish), wyprzeć się [perfective] (Polish), отрека́ться (otrekátʹsja) [neuter] (Russian), repudiar (Spanish), desconocer (Spanish), inkâr etmek (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'to refuse to have anything to do with': 11 45 42 2

Inflected forms

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          "_dis1": "69 20 9 1",
          "code": "ar",
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          "roman": "rafaḍa",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "رَفَضَ"
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          "roman": "žxtel",
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "отричам"
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "ontkennen"
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "kieltää"
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          "_dis1": "69 20 9 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "sanoutua irti"
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          "_dis1": "69 20 9 1",
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "répudier"
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          "_dis1": "69 20 9 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "nier"
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          "_dis1": "69 20 9 1",
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          "english": "sb./sth.",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "verleugnen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 20 9 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "abstreiten"
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          "_dis1": "69 20 9 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "leugnen"
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          "_dis1": "69 20 9 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "zurückweisen"
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          "_dis1": "69 20 9 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "apokirýsso",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "αποκηρύσσω"
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          "_dis1": "69 20 9 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "tagad"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "visszautasít"
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "negō"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "ódbie",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "о́дбие"
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          "roman": "ótfrli",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "о́тфрли"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "whawhati"
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          "code": "mi",
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "fornekte"
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "odrzucić"
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          "roman": "otvergátʹ",
          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
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          "word": "отверга́ть"
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "negar"
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "renegar"
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "rechazar"
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
          "word": "reddetmek"
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          "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
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          "ref": "1976, Terrence Des Pres, “Excremental Assault”, in The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps, page 60:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1980, Spiro Agnew, Go Quietly . . . Or Else, New York: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 34:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(intransitive) To be repudiated."
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}
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          "ref": "1976, Terrence Des Pres, “Excremental Assault”, in The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps, page 60:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1980, Spiro Agnew, Go Quietly . . . Or Else, New York: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 34:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "word": "abjure"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:repudiate",
      "word": "deny"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:repudiate",
      "word": "disavow"
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      "word": "disown"
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      "word": "forsay"
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      "word": "renounce"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:repudiate",
      "word": "repudiate"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:repudiate",
      "word": "wash one's hands of"
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "rafaḍa",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "رَفَضَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "žxtel",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "ժխտել"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otričam",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "отричам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "ontkennen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "malagnoski"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "kieltää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "sanoutua irti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "répudier"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "nier"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "sb./sth.",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "verleugnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "abstreiten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "leugnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "zurückweisen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "apokirýsso",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "αποκηρύσσω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "tagad"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "visszautasít"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "negō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ódbie",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "о́дбие"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ótfrli",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "о́тфрли"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "whawhati"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "whākorekore"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "whakakore"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "fornekte"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "odrzucić"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otvergátʹ",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "отверга́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "repudiar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "negar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "renegar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "rechazar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "reddetmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to reject the truth of, deny",
      "word": "yalanlamak"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "tabarraʔa",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "تَبَرَّأَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otričam se",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "отричам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "kieltäytyä olemasta missään tekemisissä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "sanoutua irti"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "verleugnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "verstoßen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "sich distanzieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "zurückweisen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "sich verweigern"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "aporrípto",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "απορρίπτω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "tagad"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "note": "(of a relative) kitagad",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "repudiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "se ótkaže",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "се о́ткаже"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ódbie",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "о́дбие"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "wyrzec się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "wyprzeć się"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otrekátʹsja",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "отрека́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "repudiar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "desconocer"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to refuse to have anything to do with",
      "word": "inkâr etmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to refuse to pay a debt",
      "word": "kieltäytyä maksamasta"
    }
  ],
  "word": "repudiate"
}

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