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ABJURE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they abjure ... he / she / it abjures
Past simple: abjured
Past participle: abjured
-ing form: abjuring
Sense 1
Meaning:
Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
Example:
She abjured her beliefs
Synonyms:
abjure; forswear; recant; resile; retract
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "abjure" is one way to...):
disown; renounce; repudiate (cast off)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
abjuration (a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion)
abjurer (a person who abjures)
