adj
Meaning 1
Repudiated by a husband, divorced.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
repudiate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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rĭ-pyoo͞′dē-āt′′
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Received-Pronunciation, US: /ɹɪˈpjuː.di.eɪt/
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Received-Pronunciation, US: /ɹəˈpjuː.di.eɪt/
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adj
Meaning 2
Repudiated after betrothal or engagement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Set aside, rejected.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Qualifier: generally
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A divorced wife.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: deny, contradict, gainsay, refudiate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disavow, forswear
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: welsh
Antonyms: requite
verb
Meaning 8
To be repudiated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The woman repudiated the divorce settlement
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reject
verb
Meaning 10
cast off
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She renounced her husband
- The parents repudiated their son
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disown, renounce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reject
Narrower terms: apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate, abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile, swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw, refute, rebut, deny
verb
Meaning 11
reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She repudiated the accusations
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deny
verb
Meaning 12
refuse to recognize or pay
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- repudiate a debt
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: refuse, decline
History
Etymology
First attested in 1543; from Latin repudiātus, the perfect passive participle of repudiō (“to cast off, reject”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from repudium (“rejection, repudiation, divorce”).
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: رَفَضَ (rafaḍa) — to reject the truth of, deny
- Armenian: ժխտել (žxtel) — to reject the truth of, deny
- Bulgarian: отричам (otričam) — to reject the truth of, deny
- Dutch: ontkennen — to reject the truth of, deny
- Esperanto: malagnoski — to reject the truth of, deny
- Finnish: kieltää — to reject the truth of, deny
- Finnish: sanoutua irti — to reject the truth of, deny
- French: répudier — to reject the truth of, deny
- French: nier — to reject the truth of, deny
- German: verleugnen — to reject the truth of, deny
- German: abstreiten — to reject the truth of, deny
- German: leugnen — to reject the truth of, deny
- German: zurückweisen — to reject the truth of, deny
- Greek: αποκηρύσσω (apokirýsso) — to reject the truth of, deny
- Hungarian: tagad — to reject the truth of, deny
- Hungarian: visszautasít — to reject the truth of, deny
- Latin: negō — to reject the truth of, deny
- Macedonian: о́дбие (ódbie) — to reject the truth of, deny
- Macedonian: о́тфрли (ótfrli) — to reject the truth of, deny
- Māori: whawhati — to reject the truth of, deny
- Māori: whākorekore — to reject the truth of, deny
- Māori: whakakore — to reject the truth of, deny
- Norwegian: fornekte — to reject the truth of, deny
- Polish: odrzucić — to reject the truth of, deny
- Russian: отверга́ть (otvergátʹ) — to reject the truth of, deny
- Spanish: repudiar — to reject the truth of, deny
- Spanish: negar — to reject the truth of, deny
- Spanish: renegar — to reject the truth of, deny
- Spanish: rechazar — to reject the truth of, deny
- Turkish: reddetmek — to reject the truth of, deny
- Turkish: yalanlamak — to reject the truth of, deny
- Arabic: تَبَرَّأَ (tabarraʔa) — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Bulgarian: отричам се (otričam se) — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Finnish: kieltäytyä olemasta missään tekemisissä — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Finnish: sanoutua irti — to refuse to have anything to do with
- German: verleugnen — to refuse to have anything to do with
- German: verstoßen — to refuse to have anything to do with
- German: sich distanzieren — to refuse to have anything to do with
- German: zurückweisen — to refuse to have anything to do with
- German: sich verweigern — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Greek: απορρίπτω (aporrípto) — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Hungarian: tagad — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Latin: repudiō — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Macedonian: се о́ткаже (se ótkaže) — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Macedonian: о́дбие (ódbie) — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Polish: wyrzec się — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Polish: wyprzeć się — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Russian: отрека́ться (otrekátʹsja) — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Spanish: repudiar — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Spanish: desconocer — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Turkish: inkâr etmek — to refuse to have anything to do with
- Finnish: kieltäytyä maksamasta — to refuse to pay a debt