repudiates

Verb

repudiate (third-person singular simple present repudiates, present participle repudiating, simple past and past participle repudiated)

1. (transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
   • The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.2012, Bell Hooks, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

   Synonyms:

   deny, contradict, gainsay, refudiate

2. (transitive) To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.
   • It was not enough just to shoot the Old Bolsheviks; Stalin had to have the show trials. He had to demonstrate publicly that these men of enormous energy and spirit were so utterly broken as to openly repudiate themselves and all they had fought for.1976, Terrence Des Pres, “Excremental Assault”, in The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps, page 60

   Synonyms:

   disavow, forswear

3. (transitive) To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
   • '[…] she dictated to Briggs a furious answer in her own native tongue, repudiating Mrs. Rawdon Crawley altogether […]'1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 34, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   welsh

   Antonyms:

   requite

4. (intransitive) To be repudiated.

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