wash your hands of sth
If you wash your hands of something that you were previously responsible for, you intentionally stop being involved in it or connected with it in any way:
She couldn't wait to wash her hands of the whole project.
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Refusing & rejecting
- abnegate
- blow
- bugger
- damned
- demur
- derecognize
- disclaim
- door
- override
- react against sth
- refusal
- shoot
- shun
- sit
- sit sth out
- throw
- throw sth out
- turn sb away
- vote sth down
- wash
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