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dispossess collapse: expel or put out of the possession of real estate

evict collapse: expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"; expel or eject without recourse to legal process; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m."

contravene collapse

expropriate collapse: deprive of possessions; "The Communist government expropriated the landowners"

unsay collapse

foreclose collapse: subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage

eat crow collapse

disaffirm collapse

climb down collapse

not admit collapse

gainsay collapse

disavow collapse: refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children"

not accept collapse

brush aside collapse

disprove collapse: prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"

contemn collapse: look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"

impugn collapse: attack as false or wrong

renege collapse: fail to fulfill a promise or obligation; "She backed out of her promise"

take issue with collapse

back out collapse: move out of a space backwards; "He backed out of the driveway"

nullify collapse

revoke collapse: the mistake of not following suit when able to do so; annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"; fail to follow suit when able and required to do so

back down collapse

take back collapse: cause someone to remember the past; "This photo takes me back to the good old days"; move text to the previous line; in printing; regain possession of something; resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband

despise collapse

pass up collapse: fail to acknowledge; "he passed me up in the street"

scorn collapse

belie collapse

push aside collapse: push out of the way

refute collapse: prove to be false or incorrect; overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"

turn away collapse: move so as not face somebody or something

discount collapse: the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise; give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes"

pass by collapse

backwater collapse: any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress; a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam; "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos"

disapprove collapse: consider bad or wrong; deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods"

disclaim collapse: make a disclaimer about; "He disclaimed any responsibility"; renounce a legal claim or title to

retract collapse: use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

spurn collapse

except collapse

disallow collapse

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