repudiate
Americanverb (used with object)
-
to reject as having no authority or binding force.
to repudiate a claim.
- Antonyms:
- accept
-
to cast off or disown.
to repudiate a son.
-
to reject with disapproval or condemnation.
to repudiate a new doctrine.
- Synonyms:
- disapprove , condemn , disown , renounce
- Antonyms:
- approve
-
to reject with denial.
to repudiate a charge as untrue.
-
to refuse to acknowledge and pay (a debt), as a state, municipality, etc.
verb
-
to reject the authority or validity of; refuse to accept or ratify
Congress repudiated the treaty that the President had negotiated
-
to refuse to acknowledge or pay (a debt)
-
to cast off or disown (a son, lover, etc)
Other Word Forms
- nonrepudiable adjective
- nonrepudiative adjective
- repudiable adjective
- repudiation noun
- repudiative adjective
- repudiator noun
- unrepudiable adjective
- unrepudiated adjective
- unrepudiative adjective
Etymology
Origin of repudiate
First recorded in 1535–45; from Latin repudiātus (past participle of repudiāre “to reject, refuse”), equivalent to repudi(um) “a casting off, divorce” ( re- + pud(ere) “to make ashamed, feel shame” + -ium noun suffix ) + -ātus past participle sufffix; re-, pudendum, -ium, -ate 1
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The Heritage Foundation, which has financial ties to Mr. Carlson, has refused to repudiate this relationship, and its president’s video defense of this stance made matters worse.
But many are too centrist to repudiate them, and the other half are too radical for their alternatives to be palatable.
“We don’t want war in the Caribbean nor South America,” he said, adding: “How many more coups by the CIA? Latin America doesn’t want them, doesn’t need them and repudiates them.”
Some of those decisions aligned with some unitary executive claims, but others directly repudiated them.
From Salon
He also said that his remark that immigration risked turning the UK into an "island of strangers" was a mistake and repudiates much else of the political strategy of his first year in office.
From BBC
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
