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REPUGN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does repugn mean?
• REPUGN (verb)
The verb REPUGN has 1 sense:
1. to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation
Familiarity information: REPUGN used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
To make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
Context example:
They contested the outcome of the race
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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