Word Meanings - REPUDIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

repudiate, reject, fr. repudium separation, divorce; pref. re- re- + 1. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject. Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. Prynne. 2. To divorce, put away, or discard, as

Additional info about word: REPUDIATE

repudiate, reject, fr. repudium separation, divorce; pref. re- re- + 1. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject. Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. Prynne. 2. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry. His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward. Bolingbroke. 3. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPUDIATE)

• Abandon
• Leave
• forsake
• desert
• renounce
• cease
• relinquish
• discontinue
• castoff
• resign
• retire
• quit
• forego
• forswear
• depart from
• vacate
• surrender
• abjure
• repudiate
• Abjure
• Renounce
• deny
• apostatize
• discard
• recant
• disclaim
• disavow
• revoke
• retract
• disown
• Banish
• Expel
• abandon
• dispel
• eject
• extrude
• exclude
• relegate
• expatriate
• Ignore
• Disown
• overlook
• Protest
• Expostulate
• remonstrate
• denounce
• deprecate
• affirm
• aver
• assure

Related words: (words related to REPUDIATE)

• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• RESIGNATION
  1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• VACATE
  Etym: 1. To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house. 2. To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of
• FORSAKE
  1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30. 2. To renounce; to
• EXTRUDE
  To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away. "Parentheses thrown into notes or extruded to the margin." Coleridge.
• DENOUNCE
  denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim . Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• FORSAKER
  One who forsakes or deserts.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• EJECTMENT
  A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• UNASSURED
  1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.