Disclaim



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 放弃权利; 拒绝承认
• ［英］ v.放弃权利 ( to give up or renounce) ; 拒绝承认 ( to refuse to acknowledge; deny; repudiate)
• ［记］ dis+claim ( 喊, 要求) -> 不再要求 -> 放弃 ( 权利等)

Webster Collegiate

verb

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French disclaimer, from dis- + claimer to claim
• Date: 15th century
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to make a disclaimer
  • 2.
    • a. obsolete to disavow all part or share
    • b. to utter denial
• transitive verb
  • 1. to renounce a legal claim to
  • 2. deny, disavow <disclaimed any knowledge of the contents of the letter>

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