To deny or reject the authority of. Obsolete.

To refuse to recognize or acknowledge (a person or thing) as having a certain character or certain claims; to disown, disavow, repudiate, renounce.

transitive. To retract (a pledge). Obsolete. rare.

To deny or repudiate on oath or with strong asseveration. †Also with infinitive or sentence as object.

transitive. = repudiate, v. (chiefly in sense 1b). Also intransitive.

transitive. To repudiate; to set aside (an agreement, decision, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To renounce completely, to repudiate.

transitive. To reject as unauthorized; to refuse to recognize or obey.

transitive. In negative construction, with will not or would not: to refuse to accept as fact; to deny categorically. Chiefly with it as…

gen. transitive. With complement. To deny or refuse to accept (a person) as being something specified.

transitive. To refuse to carry out; to repudiate (an obligation). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. = abrenounce, v.

transitive. To disown; to relinquish.

To refuse to acknowledge or admit (anything imputed, claimed, or asserted); to deny. Obsolete.

transitive. To reject (an allegation, assertion, report, etc.) as without foundation; to repudiate.

To criticize severely. Also, in later use, to repudiate or contradict (an allegation, etc.). colloquial (originally U.S.).