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refudiating

refudiating is the present participle and gerund of refudiate.

Meaning of refudiate

Verb

refudiate (third-person singular simple present refudiates, present participle refudiating, simple past and past participle refudiated)

  1. (nonstandard) To repudiate, to oppose.
    • Blends are the simplest kind of slip of the tongue […] some examples […] "refudiating" (refuting + repudiating).1951, Rulon Wells, "Predicting Slips of the Tongue"; reprinted in Victoria Fromkin (editor), Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence, 1973, Walter de Gruyter, page 85

Questions about refudiating

What is refudiating the present participle and gerund of?
Refudiating is the present participle and gerund of refudiate.

Words near refudiating in the dictionary

  1. Refucklicans
  2. refucks
  3. refudiate
  4. refudiated
  5. refudiates
  6. refudiating
  7. refuel
  8. refuelable
  9. refueled
  10. refueler
  11. refuelers

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