repudiate
verb (used with object)
to reject as having no authority or binding force.
was repudiating
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past progressiveof repudiate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In other words, Mr. Denton was repudiating the identity of the website he had spent 12 years building.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2015
In so doing, it signaled, publicly at least, that it was repudiating its longstanding alliance with Saudi Arabia’s regional rival, Iran.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2015
Even so, it is difficult to see on what legal ground he was kept in the queen’s bench prison after July 1553; for Mary herself was repudiating the royal authority in religion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
At the very time—so inconsistent was this singular woman—that Lord Crawford, at her request, was breaking the news of her marriage to her brother, she was repudiating it indignantly to every person she met.
From Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall
All Ireland was repudiating the crime, and saying that this horror had surely been done by American hands.
From The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
