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As a noun terms

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As a verb refudiate is

(nonstandard) to repudiate, to oppose.

terms

English

Noun

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    refudiate

    English

    Verb

  • (nonstandard) To repudiate, to oppose.
  • * 1951 , Rulon Wells, "Predicting Slips of the Tongue"; reprinted in Victoria Fromkin (editor), Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence , 1973, Walter de Gruyter, page 85:
    • Blends are the simplest kind of slip of the tongue "refudiat- ing " (refuting + repudiating).
  • * 1980 January 23, in Report of Joint Commission on Prescription Drug Use , page 1:
    • their articles were read to determine whether the citation was to substantiate or refudiate the initial claim or was it a "quote of acceptance".
  • * 1984 , John Sladek, The Lunatics of Terra , Wildside Press LLC (2005), ISBN 978-1-58715-410-2, page 77:
    • ‘Captain Blip? Never,’ he said, without ceasing to calculate. ‘I refudiate that.’
    ‘You what?’ Jane felt suddenly cold all over. ‘There’s no such word, Denny.’
  • * 1987 , Mahabalagiri N. Hegde, Clinical Research in Communicative Disorders: Principles and Strategies , Little, Brown, ISBN 9780316354349, page 317:
    • The value of given data can and must be judged regardless of the hypothesis they are supposed to support or refudiate .
  • * 1988 March 3, , quoted in Worldwide Narcotics Review of the 1988 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report , U.S. Government Printing Office, page 9:
    • I am going to do everything I can along with the Chairman to see this Congress refudiate the certification of certain countries that are not complying.
  • * David Segal quoting a marijuana seller, “ When Capitalism Meets Cannabis”, in The New York Times , 2010 June 27, page BU1:
    • Words are coined on the spot, like “refudiate ,” and regular words are used in ways that make sense only in context.
  • * 2010 , Matt DeLong quoting , “ 'Refudiating' Palin brings Shakespeare into Twitter exchange”, in the Washington Post , 2010 July 20:
    • Palin tweeted that "peaceful Muslims" should "refudiate'" the New York mosque being built near Ground Zero. This prompted plenty of retweets at her expense -- "' refudiate ," of course, is not a word.