repudiate

Other forms of repudiate

past tense

repudiated·

present participle

repudiating·

third person

repudiates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about repudiate

What does repudiate mean?

repudiate means "cast off". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in repudiate?

repudiate has 4 syllables: re-pu-di-ate. The stress falls on "pu". In IPA it is /ɹiˈpjudiˌeɪt/.

What is another word for repudiate?

Close synonyms include disown, renounce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is repudiate a common word?

repudiate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with repudiate?

95 words rhyme with repudiate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.