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disclaim
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of DISCLAIM
1
to refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as one's responsibility <the prisoner disclaimed any part in the prank>
Related Words contradict, disallow, gainsay, negate, negative, refuse, reject; challenge, confute, criticize, disprove, rebut, refute; dispute, question; abdicate, abjure, recant, renounce, retract
Phrases wash one's hands of
2
to declare not to be true <her spokesperson flatly disclaimed the marriage rumor circulating in the press>
Synonyms contradict, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disconfirm, disown, gainsay, negate, negative, refute, reject, repudiate
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