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English noun: repudiation | |||
| 1. | repudiation (communication) rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid | ||
| Samples | Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated. | ||
| Synonyms | renunciation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rejection | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | disclaimer, disowning, disownment | ||
| 2. | repudiation (communication) refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities) | ||
| Samples | The repudiation of the debt by the city. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | refusal | ||
| 3. | repudiation (act) the exposure of falseness or pretensions | ||
| Samples | The debunking of religion has been too successful. | ||
| Synonyms | debunking | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | exposure | ||
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