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disown

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Quick answer

As a verb, disown means refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.

Meanings of disown

5 meanings

verb

To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
“Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris.”
To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
computingunixTo detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session.
Prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting
Similar: disinherit
Cast off
“She renounced her husband”
“The parents repudiated their son”
Similar: renounce, repudiate

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

verb: prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

verb: cast off

renounce repudiate

Words that rhyme with disown

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