repugnate

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English

Etymology

From Latin repugnare. See repugn.

Verb

repugnate (third-person singular simple present repugnates, present participle repugnating, simple past and past participle repugnated)

  1. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To oppose; to fight against.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “repugnate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

repugnāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of repugnō

Spanish

Verb

repugnate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of repugnar combined with te
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