ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsRrepudiate
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repudiate
Meaning: to reject or refuse to accept as valid or true
repudiate in a sentence
How repudiate is used in real sentences:
The senator was quick to repudiate the rumors about his involvement in the scandal.
The company repudiated the report, calling its findings completely false.
“Even so, council members refused to rescind the first-come rule entirely or repudiate its underlying claim that arrival should matter.”
— from the passage Waiting by Design
“Hidden ledgers finally allowed officials to repudiate the company's assurances, because its own measurements had tracked the plume for twelve years.”
— from the passage The Ninth Spring
“Venn's new essay does more than repudiate her old claims; it reconstructs the professional incentives that once made those claims feel self-evident.”
— from the passage The Late Correction
Synonyms for repudiate
Other words for repudiate — reject, renounce and disavow — carry the same meaning.
- reject
- renounce
- disavow
Antonyms of repudiate
Words that mean the opposite of repudiate:
- endorse
- embrace
Where it comes from
From Latin repudiare 'to cast off, divorce'
Memory hook
RE-PUDI-ATE sounds like 're-PUT-it-away' — you push the claim away and reject it.