re·pu·di·ate 1. To reject the validity or authority of: "Chaucer ... not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of... 2. To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust: repudiated the accusation. 3. To refuse to recognize or pay: repudiate a debt.
Britannica Dictionary definition of REPUDIATE. [+ object] formal. 1. : to refuse to accept or support (something) : to reject (something or someone) a generation that has repudiated the values of the past. He has publicly repudiated the government's policies. 2. : to say or show that (something) is not true. He published an article that ...
To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts. By Noah Webster. To divorce ( a wife ); to refuse to own; to cast off; as, to repudiate an old friend; to decline to be responsible for; as, to repudiate a debt; refuse to admit the truth of; as, to repudiate a statement.
Repudiate. Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus . TO REPUDIATE. To repudiate a right is to express in a sufficient manner, a determination not to accept it, when it is offered. 2. He who repudiates a right cannot by that act transfer it to another. Repudiation differs from renunciation in this, that by the former he who repudiates simply ...