repudiate
verb (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they repudiate | |
| he / she / it repudiates | |
| past simple repudiated | |
| past participle repudiated | |
| -ing form repudiating |
- repudiate something
to refuse to accept something 拒绝；不接受；回绝 to repudiate a suggestion 拒绝一项建议 Socialism had been repudiated at the polls. 社会主义在投票中被否定了。 - (
law 法律 Borrowers have begun repudiating their debt obligations. 借款人已经开始拒绝偿还债务。 - (
law 法律 The buyer is entitled to repudiate the contract within a reasonable period of time. 买方有权在合理的时间内拒绝接受合同。
- repudiate something
to say officially and/or publicly that something is not true （正式地）否认，驳斥 to repudiate a report 驳斥一份报告
- repudiate somebody (old-fashioned)
to refuse to be connected with somebody any longer 拒绝与…往来；断绝同…的关系
Word Originlate Middle English (originally an adjective in the sense ‘divorced’): from Latin repudiatus ‘divorced, cast off’, from repudium ‘divorce’.