Refudiate vs. Repudiate

Refudiateverb

(nonstandard) To repudiate, to oppose.

Repudiateverb

(transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.

Repudiateverb

(transitive) To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.

Repudiateverb

(transitive) To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).

Repudiateverb

(intransitive) To be repudiated.

Repudiateverb

To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.

‘Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care.’;

Repudiateverb

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.’;

Repudiateverb

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

Repudiateverb

cast off or disown;

‘She renounced her husband’; ‘The parents repudiated their son’;

Repudiateverb

refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid;

‘The woman repudiated the divorce settlement’;

Repudiateverb

refuse to recognize or pay;

‘repudiate a debt’;

Repudiateverb

reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust;

‘She repudiated the accusations’;

Repudiateverb

refuse to accept; reject

‘she has repudiated policies associated with previous party leaders’;

Repudiateverb

refuse to fulfil or discharge (an agreement, obligation, or debt)

‘breach of a condition gives the other party the right to repudiate a contract’;

Repudiateverb

(in the past or in non-Christian religions) disown or divorce (one's wife)

‘Philip was excommunicated in 1095 because he had repudiated his wife’;

Repudiateverb

deny the truth or validity of

‘the minister repudiated allegations of human rights abuses’;