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refudiate

verb
/ɹɪˈfjuː.di.eɪt/US

Etymology

Blend of refute + repudiate. Often associated with Sarah Palin's infamous 2010 lapsus linguae. A few rare attestations predate the 1970s. Since then the word has been uncommon although not rare, but many written occurrences of the word focus on prescriptively repudiating its use; it remains nonstandard.

  1. borrowed from repudiātus
  2. compounded as refudiate — “refute + repudiate”

Definitions

  1. To repudiate, to oppose.

    • Blends are the simplest kind of slip of the tongue […] some examples […] "refudiating" (refuting + repudiating).
    • […] their articles were read to determine whether the citation was to substantiate or refudiate the initial claim or was it a "quote of acceptance".
    • ‘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.’

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA