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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) deny (refuse to accept or believe) "He denied his fatal illness"

W: (n) renunciation [Related to: renounce] (rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid) "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated"
W: (n) renouncement [Related to: renounce] (an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned)
W: (n) repudiation [Related to: repudiate] (rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid) "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated"