What are some opposite words for repudiate?

Antonyms for repudiate
rɪˈpyu diˌeɪtre·pu·di·ate

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. repudiate

    Abandon is a word of wide signification, applying to persons or things of any kind; abdicate and resign apply to office, authority, or power; cede to territorial possessions; surrender especially to military force, and more generally to any demand, claim, passion, etc. Quit carries an idea of suddenness or abruptness not necessarily implied in abandon, and may not have the same suggestion of finality. The king abdicates his throne, cedes his territory, deserts his followers, renounces his religion, relinquishes his titles, abandons his designs. A cowardly officer deserts his ship; the helpless passengers abandon it. We quit business, give up property, resign office, abandon a habit or a trust. Relinquish commonly implies reluctance; the fainting hand relinquishes its grasp; the creditor relinquishes his claim. Abandon implies previous association with responsibility for or control of; forsake implies previous association with inclination or attachment, real or assumed; a man may abandon or forsake house or friends; he abandons an enterprise; forsakes God. Abandon is applied to both good and evil action; a thief abandons his designs, a man his principles. Forsake, like abandon, may be used either in the favorable or unfavorable sense; desert is always unfavorable, involving a breach of duty, except when used of mere localities; as, "the Deserted Village." While a monarch abdicates, a president or other elected or appointed officer resigns. It was held that James II. abdicated his throne by deserting it.

    Antonyms:
    adopt, advocate, assert, cherish, claim, court, defend, favor, haunt, hold, keep, maintain, occupy, prosecute, protect, pursue, retain, seek, support, undertake, uphold, vindicate

    Synonyms:
    abandon, abdicate, abjure, cast off, cease, cede, depart from, desert, discontinue, forego, forsake, forswear, give up, leave, quit, recant, relinquish, renounce, resign, retire from, retract, surrender, vacate, withdraw from

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. repudiate

    Antonyms:
    avow, own, vindicate, assert, retain, vaunt, claim, profess, recognize, acknowledge, accept

    Synonyms:
    disavow, disown, discard, castoff, abjure, renounce, disclaim, divorce

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  1. disown, renounce, repudiateverb

    cast off

    "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

    Synonyms:
    quit, give up, resign, foreswear, vacate, disown, disinherit, relinquish, abdicate, renounce

  2. repudiateverb

    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid

    "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement"

    Synonyms:
    renounce, disown

  3. repudiateverb

    refuse to recognize or pay

    "repudiate a debt"

    Synonyms:
    renounce, disown

  4. repudiateverb

    reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust

    "She repudiated the accusations"

    Synonyms:
    renounce, disown

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  1. repudiateverb

    Synonyms:
    reject, renounce, disavow, abjure, disclaim

How to use repudiate in a sentence?

  1. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman:

    An approach like this allows us as a company to repudiate content we don't want to associate with the business, but gives individuals freedom to consume it if they choose.

  2. Ryan Pack:

    Engross what is just, repudiate what is unjust.

  3. Thum Ping Tjin:

    Singapore continues to be governed using the same values, institutions and assumptions that underpinned British colonialism so the government can not reject or repudiate colonialism without also criticizing its own values, institutions and methods of governance.

  4. Lawrence Goldstone:

    Trump was very clever in not explicitly asking for violence, but hinting at it, but when violence actually happened, and he did not immediately repudiate it, he lost the benefit of the doubt.

  5. Michael Cohen:

    As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#148support
#294own
#608court
#656keep
#1275hold
#1893accept
#2022claim
#2157protect
#2422maintain
#3171seek
#4730recognize
#5455favor
#5639adopt
#6857retain
#7451advocate
#7546pursue
#7739defend
#8397acknowledge
#9347undertake
#13093assert
#15899occupy
#22440uphold
#24818prosecute
#25495cherish
#26533haunt
#38812profess
#80199vindicate
#82810repudiate
#170258avow
#281038vaunt

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