1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Repudiate

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To reject the validity or authority of: "Chaucer . . . not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it” ( Joyce Carol Oates).

v. To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust: repudiated the accusation.

v. To refuse to recognize or pay: repudiate a debt.

v. To disown (a child, for example).

v. To refuse to have any dealings with.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.

v. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.

v. To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.

v. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.

v. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To put away; divorce.

To cast away; reject; discard; renounce; disavow.

To refuse to acknowledge or to pay, as a debt; disclaim.

Repudiated.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. cast off

v. refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid

v. reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust

v. refuse to recognize or pay

Word Usage

"You hate it that it isn't "conservative," because it didn't pursue "conservative" policies, but you support, defend, and don't reject -- or "repudiate" -- those policies."

Verb Form

repudiated repudiates repudiating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

reject deny refuse decline

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

disavow renounce reject disclaim divorce