repudiate

About 0.87 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
2. verb To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.
3. verb To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
4. verb To be repudiated. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. adjective Repudiated by a husband, divorced.
6. adjective Repudiated after betrothal or engagement.
7. adjective Set aside, rejected.
8. noun A divorced wife.

Similar words

renounce disavow deny disallow reject disown refuse recuse renege negate

Often followed by

the it his their all this them any a

Word family

repudiated repudiates repudiating repudiator repudiators