repudiate

verb

/rɪˈpjuːdieɪt/

(formal)

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they repudiate	/rɪˈpjuːdieɪt/ /rɪˈpjuːdieɪt/
he / she / it repudiates	/rɪˈpjuːdieɪts/ /rɪˈpjuːdieɪts/
past simple repudiated	/rɪˈpjuːdieɪtɪd/ /rɪˈpjuːdieɪtɪd/
past participle repudiated	/rɪˈpjuːdieɪtɪd/ /rɪˈpjuːdieɪtɪd/
-ing form repudiating	/rɪˈpjuːdieɪtɪŋ/ /rɪˈpjuːdieɪtɪŋ/

repudiate something to refuse to accept something拒绝；不接受；回绝 synonym reject
- 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 synonym deny
- 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 synonym disown
- He repudiated his first wife and married her sister.他和第一个妻子离了婚，然后娶了她的妹妹。

词源late Middle English (originally an adjective in the sense ‘divorced’): from Latin repudiatus ‘divorced, cast off’, from repudium ‘divorce’.