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 拒絕；不接受；回絕 to repudiate a suggestion 拒絕一項建議 Socialism had been repudiated at the polls. 社會主義在投票中被否定了。 - (
law 法律 Borrowers have begun repudiating their debt obligations. 借款人已經開始拒絕償還債務。 - (
law 法律 The buyer is entitled to repudiate the contract within a reasonable period of time. 買方有權在合理的時間内拒絕接受合同。
- repudiate something
to say officially and/or publicly that something is not true （正式地）否認，駁斥 to repudiate a report 駁斥一份報告
- repudiate somebody (old-fashioned)
to refuse to be connected with somebody any longer 拒絕與…往來；斷絕同…的關系
Word Originlate Middle English (originally an adjective in the sense ‘divorced’): from Latin repudiatus ‘divorced, cast off’, from repudium ‘divorce’.