abjuring

The word “abjuring” has 3 syllables: ab-jur-ing

It's pronounced as /əbˈdʒʊərɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for abjuring?

In the thesaurus, “abjuring” has 54 synonyms and 26 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for abjuring along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for abjuring

  • abandoning
  • abnegating
  • avoiding
  • backing down
  • backing off
  • backtracking
  • bolting
  • bucking
  • checking
  • combating
  • combatting
  • constraining
  • contradicting
  • controverting
  • curbing
  • denying
  • disallowing
  • disavowing
  • disclaiming
  • disowning
  • disproving
  • disputing
  • eschewing
  • fighting
  • forbearing
  • foregoing
  • foreswearing
  • forgoing
  • forsaking
  • forswearing
  • gainsaying
  • giving up
  • inhibiting
  • negating
  • negativing
  • rebutting
  • recalling
  • recanting
  • refusing
  • refuting
  • rejecting
  • relinquishing
  • reneging
  • renouncing
  • repealing
  • repudiating
  • retracting
  • revoking
  • shunning
  • spurning
  • surrendering
  • taking back
  • unsaying
  • withdrawing

Antonyms for abjuring

  • accepting
  • acknowledging
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • affirming
  • asserting
  • avowing
  • backing
  • capitulating
  • claiming
  • confirming
  • contending
  • declaring
  • defending
  • embracing
  • endorsing
  • espousing
  • indorsing
  • maintaining
  • proclaiming
  • professing
  • stating
  • supporting
  • upholding
  • vouching
  • vowing

Meanings of abjuring

  • verb
    1. To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.
    2. To cause one to renounce or recant.
    3. To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim.
    4. To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.

Example Sentences

  • By publicly abjuring violence, the activist urged for peaceful protests.
  • The politician made headlines by abjuring his previous stance on the controversial issue.
  • In the court of law, the witness faced consequences for abjuring the truth under oath.
  • The group of rebels issued a statement abjuring any association with the recent terrorist attacks.
  • The religious leader emphasized the importance of abjuring material possessions for spiritual growth.

On this page you'll find 80 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to abjuring, such as: abandoning, abnegating, accepting, acknowledging, admitting, adopting, affirming.

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Related Words

backing down

  • abjuring
  • abnegating
  • acquiescence
  • appeasement
  • assent
  • backing off
  • backing out
  • backpedaling
  • backtracking
  • begging off
  • bowing
  • capitulation
  • caving in
  • copping out
  • cringing
  • crying off
  • defeatism
  • deference
  • disavowing
  • docility
  • finking out
  • flag of truce
  • foreswearing
  • forswearing
  • giving-in
  • going back on
  • humbleness
  • humility
  • malleability
  • meekness
  • nonresistance
  • obedience
  • passivism
  • passivity
  • pliabilty
  • prostration
  • recalling
  • recanting
  • recreancy
  • reneging
  • repudiating
  • resignation
  • retracting
  • retreat
  • servility
  • subjection
  • submission
  • submissiveness
  • submitting
  • surrender
  • taking back
  • throwing in the towel
  • tractability
  • truce flag
  • unassertiveness
  • unsaying
  • wimping out
  • withdrawing
  • yielding

backpedaling

  • 180
  • U-turn
  • abjuration
  • abjuring
  • abnegating
  • abnegation
  • about-face
  • abrogation
  • annulment
  • apostasy
  • backing down
  • backing off
  • backing out
  • backtracking
  • begging off
  • cancellation
  • change in direction
  • change of mind
  • contradiction
  • contraversion
  • copping out
  • crying off
  • defection
  • denial
  • disavowal
  • disavowing
  • disclaimer
  • disowning
  • doubleback
  • finking out
  • flip-flop
  • foreswearing
  • forswearing
  • gainsaying
  • inversion
  • nullification
  • palinode
  • recall
  • recalling
  • recantation
  • recanting
  • reneging
  • renouncing
  • repeal
  • repudiating
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retractation
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • revocation
  • second thoughts
  • switch
  • taking back
  • transposition
  • turnabout
  • turnaround
  • unsaying
  • volte-face
  • wimping out
  • withdrawal
  • withdrawing

taking back

abnegating

backing off


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