9 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
verb cast off
verb refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
verb refuse to recognize or pay
originFirst attested in 1543; from Latin repudiātus, the perfect passive participle of repudiō (“to cast off, reject”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from repudium (“rejection, repudiation, divorce”).
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