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Disown

//dɪsˈoʊn// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. transitive

    "Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris."

  2. 2
    cast off wordnet
  3. 3
    To repudiate any connection to; to renounce. transitive

    "He disowns me, and he scorns me / But when we're alone he tells me I'm his very own"

  4. 4
    prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting wordnet
  5. 5
    To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session. Unix, transitive

Etymology

From dis- + own.

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