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abjure
Overview of verb abjure
The verb abjure has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. 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")
Grep of noun abjure
abjurer
Antonyms of verb abjure
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb abjure
1 sense of abjure
Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
=> renounce, repudiate
=> reject
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb abjure
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb abjure
1 sense of abjure
Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
=> renounce, repudiate
'Cause To' of verb abjure
Derived Forms of verb abjure
1 sense of abjure
Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
RELATED TO>(noun) abjuration#1
=> retraction, abjuration, recantation
RELATED TO>(noun) abjurer#1
=> abjurer
Domain of verb abjure
Domain Terms of verb abjure
Familiarity of verb abjure
abjure used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb abjure
1 sense of abjure
Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb abjure
1 sense of abjure
Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
> renounce, repudiate
=> apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate
=> abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
=> swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw
=> refute, rebut
=> deny
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb abjure
Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
=> renounce, repudiate
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Grep of verb abjure
abjure
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