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IMPUGN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does impugn mean?
• IMPUGN (verb)
The verb IMPUGN has 1 sense:
1. attack as false or wrong
Familiarity information: IMPUGN used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they impugn ... he / she / it impugns
Past simple: impugned
Past participle: impugned
-ing form: impugning
... he / she / it impugns Past simple: impugned
Past participle: impugned
-ing form: impugning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Attack as false or wrong
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "impugn" is one way to...):
challenge (issue a challenge to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
In ways it seemed to impugn her high spirituality.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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