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All disavow synonyms

dis·a·vow
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verb disavow

  • impugn — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
  • repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • contradict — If you contradict someone, you say that what they have just said is wrong, or suggest that it is wrong by saying something different.
  • disclaim — to deny or repudiate interest in or connection with; disavow; disown: disclaiming all participation.
  • forswear — to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
  • disown — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
  • deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
  • welsh — to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
  • abjure — If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.
  • refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
  • negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
  • renege — Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.
  • negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
  • gainsay — to deny, dispute, or contradict.
  • renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
  • recant — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
  • refute — to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
  • give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • drop out — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • worm out of — If you worm information out of someone, you gradually find it out by constantly asking them about it.
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