repudiate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: repudiate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for repudiate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
repudiate v cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" Synonym(s): disown, renounce, repudiate refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement" refuse to recognize or pay; "repudiate a debt" reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; "She repudiated the accusations"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Repudiate \Repu"diate\ (-?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repudiated} (-?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Repudiating}.] [L. repudiatus, p. p. of repudiare to repudiate, reject, fr. repudium separation, divorce; pref. re- re- + pudere to be ashamed.] 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.