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S: (v) disinherit, disown (prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting)
S: (v) disown, renounce, repudiate (cast off) "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

S: (v) apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate (abandon one's beliefs or allegiances)
S: (v) abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile (formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure) "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
S: (v) swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw (take back what one has said) "He swallowed his words"
S: (v) refute, rebut (overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof) "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"

S: (v) oppose, controvert, contradict (be resistant to) "The board opposed his motion"

S: (v) veto, blackball, negative (vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent) "The President vetoed the bill"

S: (v) kill, shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote out (thwart the passage of) "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"

S: (v) protest, resist, dissent (express opposition through action or words) "dissent to the laws of the country"

S: (v) strike, walk out (stop work in order to press demands) "The auto workers are striking for higher wages"; "The employees walked out when their demand for better benefits was not met"
S: (v) demonstrate, march (march in protest; take part in a demonstration) "Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle"

S: (v) picket (serve as pickets or post pickets) "picket a business to protest the layoffs"

S: (v) rebel, arise, rise, rise up (take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance)

S: (v) revolt (make revolution) "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again"
S: (v) mutiny (engage in a mutiny against an authority)

S: (v) answer (give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)) "The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution"

S: (v) reject (refuse to accept or acknowledge) "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"

S: (v) evaluate, pass judgment, judge (form a critical opinion of) "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?"; "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"

S: (v) think, cogitate, cerebrate (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments) "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"