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Verb(1) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure(2) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief(3) usually under pressure(4) abandon(5) disavow

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(1) But there's no requirement that people cease or forswear political opposition.(2) Though we had visited most of these harbors on previous cruises, the amount of port time encouraged us to forswear organized tours and strike out on our own.(3) They must forswear the use of race as a political weapon.(4) he would never forswear the religion of his people(5) Once again, I am faced with the choice of vices to forswear , in the spirit of turning over a new leaf.(6) Over the past 20 years, incentives have been used to successfully encourage other emergent and existing nuclear weapons powers to forswear the bomb, making the world a much safer place.(7) No appreciable number of people is really leaving, but if they are made to forswear any attention to or involvement in the whole sordid mess going forward, something similar is accomplished.(8) They had to forswear violence, to wind up their paramilitary wing and to proceed to completion with the process of disarmament.(9) It forswears the use of commercial plutonium as a fuel, because of proliferation risks.(10) They were the toilers and savers of the economic miracle generation who forswore luxuries in the austere postwar decades to reserve their place in the sun towards the end of their lives.(11) u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510It is the Lord's will that I forswear myself ,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb he said.(12) Berowne says that he has no problem subscribing to a decree that can be forsworn on mere necessity, and he signs the document.(13) In the late '70s, Fischer gave up on revolutionary socialism and forswore violence as a political tool.(14) Firstly, he has forsworn the easy Saturday Night Fever route of replicating the original's songs in the stage version.(15) By Article Nine of its constitution, Japan is forbidden to posses military forces, and forever forswore war as a means to achieve anything.(16) So acting on the above premise I forswore the two staples from my diet - and bread potatoes.
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Verb
1. renounce
2. relinquish
3. reject
4. forgo
5. disavow
6. abandon
7. deny
8. repudiate
9. give up
10. wash one's hands of
11. eschew
12. abstain from
13. refrain from
14. kick
15. pack in
16. quit
17. swear off
18. disaffirm
19. forsake
20. abjure
21. abnegate


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