repudiate
verb /rɪˈpjuːdieɪt/
/rɪˈpjuːdieɪt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they repudiate | /rɪˈpjuːdieɪt/ /rɪˈpjuːdieɪt/ |
| he / she / it repudiates | /rɪˈpjuːdieɪts/ /rɪˈpjuːdieɪts/ |
| past simple repudiated | /rɪˈpjuːdieɪtɪd/ /rɪˈpjuːdieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle repudiated | /rɪˈpjuːdieɪtɪd/ /rɪˈpjuːdieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form repudiating | /rɪˈpjuːdieɪtɪŋ/ /rɪˈpjuːdieɪtɪŋ/ |
- repudiate something to refuse to accept something synonym reject
- to repudiate a suggestion
- Socialism had been repudiated at the polls.
- (law) Borrowers have begun repudiating their debt obligations.
- (law) The buyer is entitled to repudiate the contract within a reasonable period of time.
- repudiate something to say officially and/or publicly that something is not true synonym deny
- to repudiate a report
- repudiate somebody (old-fashioned) to refuse to be connected with somebody any longer synonym disown
- He repudiated his first wife and married her sister.
Word Originlate Middle English (originally an adjective in the sense ‘divorced’): from Latin repudiatus ‘divorced, cast off’, from repudium ‘divorce’.