REPUDIATE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject. Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. Prynne.

2.
v.

To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry. His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward. Bolingbroke.

3.
v.

To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.