Synonyms for repudiate
Definitions
- v. 1
To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
- v. 2
To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.
- v. 3
To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
Related words
- Word family
- repudiation repudiative repudiatory
- Is a kind of
- refuse reject
Forms
- Past participle
- repudiated
e.g. repudiated → renounced, disowned, abjured, rejected…
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re, back, or away, and pudeo, feel shame) is primarily to renounce as shameful, hence to divorce, as a wife; thus in general to put away with emphatic and determined repulsion; as, to repudiate a debt.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- ignore If you ignore the past, you jeopardize the future.
- abandon Many Armenians were forced to abandon their lands.
- renounce I renounce everything as long as I can be with you.
- disown If Republicans hated pedophiles, they would disown Ted Nugent.
- deny You can't deny the fact that she had a hand in it.
- refute It is much harder to refute a lie than to tell one.
By length
- 4 letters
- deny2
- 5 letters
- welsh1, waive1
- 6 letters
- ignore2, refuse2, reject2, refute2, disown2, recant2, abjure
- 7 letters
- protest2, abandon3, explode2, discard2, retract2, forsake2, disavow3, gainsay2
- 8 letters
- renounce2, abdicate3, disallow3, disclaim2, forswear2
- 9 letters
- refudiate
- 10 letters
- contradict3, relinquish3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (deny2 = 2 syllables).