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disown

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dis·own  (ds-n)
tr.v. dis·owned, dis·own·ing, dis·owns
To refuse to acknowledge or accept as one's own; repudiate.

disown
Verb
to deny any connection with (someone)
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.disown - prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting
deprive - keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
2.disown - cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"
reject - refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"
apostatise, apostatize, tergiversate - abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
abjure, forswear, recant, retract, resile - formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
unsay, withdraw, swallow, take back - take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words"
rebut, refute - overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"
deny - refuse to accept or believe; "He denied his fatal illness"

disown
verb deny, reject, abandon, renounce, disallow, retract, repudiate, cast off, rebut, disavow, disclaim, abnegate, refuse to acknowledge or recognize
Translations
Spanish disown [dɪsˈəun] vtrenegar de
French disown [dɪsˈəun] vtrenier
German disown [dɪsˈəun] vt (action) → verleugnen;
(child) → verstoßen

Italian disown [dɪsˈəun] vtripudiare

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Disown sons and daughters, senor, who don't do what deserves that compliments of this sort should be paid to their parents.
Rather would I succumb than disown this one thing; and verily, where there is succumbing and leaf-falling, lo, there doth Life sacrifice itself--for power!
And with all this, Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family--the monkey.
 
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