Associations to the word «Derecognize»

Wiktionary

DERECOGNIZE, verb. To choose not to recognize; especially, to choose to no longer recognize.

Dictionary definition

DERECOGNIZE, verb. Cause to be no longer approved or accepted; "Carter derecognized Taiwan in 1979 after the U.S. recognized the People's Republic of China".

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates