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单词 repudiate
释义
repudiate
verb[T]
formal
uk
/rɪˈpjuː.di.eɪt/us
/rɪˈpjuː.di.eɪt/
torefusetoacceptsomething or someone astrue, good, orreasonable:
拒绝，不接受；否认；批驳
He repudiated theallegation/charge/claimthat he hadtriedtodeceivethem.他们指控／谴责／声称他企图欺骗他们，他对此进行了驳斥。
Iutterlyrepudiate thoseremarks.我认为这些话纯属一派胡言。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Refusing & rejecting
  • abnegate
  • abnegation
  • bar
  • batsomething/someoneaway
  • blow(something)out
  • brush
  • disown
  • jettison
  • laugh
  • miss a chance/opportunityidiom
  • punt onsomething
  • quit
  • quit onsomeone
  • react
  • react againstsomething
  • rebuff
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repudiation
(Definition ofrepudiatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

repudiate| American Dictionary

repudiate
verb[T]
fml
us
/rɪˈpjud·iˌeɪt/
torefusetoacceptorobeysomething or someone;reject:
Theevidencepresentedat thetrialhas since been repudiated.

repudiation

noun[U]us
/rɪˌpjud·iˈeɪ·ʃən/
Theelectionresultswere a repudiation of thegenerals.
(Definition ofrepudiatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

repudiate| Business English

repudiate
verb[T]
uk
/rɪˈpjuːdieɪt/us
LAW
todecidethat anagreementis nolongereffectiveand that you will not do what it says you must do:
repudiate a contract/agreementFailure todeliverontimewillentitlethebuyerto repudiate thecontract.
FINANCE
todecidethat you will notpaybackmoneythat youowe:
TheSovietUnionrepudiateditsdebtafter the 1917Revolution.

repudiation

noun[CorU]
Where thebuyeracceptsthe seller'sbreachas a repudiation of thecontract, thebuyerwill beentitledtodamages.
(Definition ofrepudiatefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrepudiate

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Nevertheless, in contrast to the 1920s, the employers refrained from direct attacks on the union, and the framework of collective bargaining was never repudiated.
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Silently, they repudiated humanity's lingering claims to special privilege inside a universe no longer ordered by theology.
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This rule, long enshrined in civil law, was repudiated only in recent times.
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No wonder the church ignored, or even repudiated, its immemorial condemnation of usurious finance.
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Some investors had repudiated their obligations on the grounds that they were dealing with brokers acting as 'jobbers' or principals, not acting as agents.
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Although such ideas have since been repudiated within archaeology, in disciplines further afield, the damage was done.
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Soames writes that the proponents of logical positivism repudiated it.
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Relations within the community as well as with the guerrillas were important in order to bolster orrepudiateaccusations.
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We know that "realists" would applaud it, and "idealists" wouldrepudiateit.
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There is little we canrepudiatein his story.
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He ' alternated or modulated between them depending on the immediate theological and cultural context of his writing, but never repudiated either one ' (p. 11).
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His judgment of the novel as a genre (and detective fiction by implication) too quickly repudiates its capacities for exposure, resistance, and transgression.
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Any concept of a ' ' real ' ' centred self is repudiated; the self is a significant absence approximated through simulations, the constructions of our spectators.
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Ridgeologists might understandably be concerned about drawing legal attention to the fact that this unparalleled credibility was won using a methodology they nowrepudiate.
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The adult's preference for women is especially salient and serves torepudiatethe child's selection of woman.
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