repudiate :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

renounce

v. cast off or disown; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

abnegate

v. deny or renounce; "They abnegated their gods"

refrain, abstain, desist, abstain from, desist from, refrain from

v. choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"

renounce, turn away from, quit, relinquish, foreswear

v. turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"

renounce, abdicate

v. give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"

contradict, controvert, oppose

v. be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion"

negate, contradict, belie

v. be in contradiction with

refuse to acknowledge, disavow

v. refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children"

disclaim, make a disclaimer about

v. make a disclaimer about; "He disclaimed any responsibility"

discard, toss, fling, put away, throw out, chuck out, throw away, cast away, cast out, cast aside, toss away, toss out, dispose of

v. throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"

reject, scorn, disdain, turn down, spurn, pooh-pooh, freeze off

v. reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"

disclaim, renounce title to

v. renounce a legal claim or title to

disinherit, disown

v. prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

condemn, judge unfit, declare unfit

v. declare or judge unfit; "The building was condemned by the inspector"

protest, dissent, resist

v. express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country"

disregard, neglect, slight, ignore, cold-shoulder

v. have no respect for

deny

v. refuse to grant, as of a petition or request; "The dean denied the students' request for more physics courses"; "the prisoners were denied the right to exercise for more than 2 hours a day"

rise, rebel, arise, rise up, resist forcefully, renounce allegiance

v. take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

accept

v. consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"

embrace, espouse, sweep up

v. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"

pass, clear, authorize, authorise, permit officially

v. grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"

acknowledge, recognize, know

v. declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"

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