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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 litigationplay

  Familiarity information: REPUGN used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REPUGN (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

To make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

contend; contest; repugn

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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