All abjure synonyms

verb abjure

• give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• forswear — to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
• renege — Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.
• retract — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
• recant — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
• withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
• renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
• refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
• disavow — to disclaim knowledge of, connection with, or responsibility for; disown; repudiate: He disavowed the remark that had been attributed to him.
• take back — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
• shun — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
• abnegate — to deny to oneself; renounce (privileges, pleasure, etc)
• abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.