| NOUN | communication | repudiation, renunciation | rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid |
|---|---|---|---|
| communication | repudiation | refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities) | |
| act | repudiation, debunking | the exposure of falseness or pretensions |
| Sounds | rihpyuw.diyey'shahn | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | Rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated" | |
| Synonym | renunciation | |
| Narrower | disclaimer | (law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something |
| disownment, disowning | refusal to acknowledge as one's own | |
| Broader | rejection | The speech act of rejecting |
| Spanish | renuncia | |
| Catalan | renúncia | |
| Verbs | repudiate | cast off |
| Meaning | refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities). | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the repudiation of the debt by the city" | |
| Broader | refusal | The act of refusing / refusing / refusing |
| Verbs | repudiate | refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid |
| repudiate | refuse to recognize or pay | |
| Meaning | The exposure of falseness or pretensions. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | debunking | |
| Broader | exposure | presentation to view in an open or public manner |
| Spanish | desacreditación, desprestigio, repudio | |
| Catalan | desacreditació, desprestigi | |
| Verbs | repudiate | reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust / unjust / unjust |
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