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REPUGN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation

Example:

They contested the outcome of the race

Synonyms:

contend; contest; repugn

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "repugn" is one way to...):

oppose (be against; express opposition to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "repugn"):

challenge; dispute; gainsay (take exception to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

repugnance (the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time)

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