disown
Verb
Verb Forms: disowned, disowning, disowns
- To refuse to acknowledge ownership, responsibility, or connection.
- prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting
- cast off
- To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
- To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
- 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.
Examples
- After his challenged word was disallowed, he tried to DISOWN it as his play.
- Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris.
Origin / Etymology
From dis- + own.
Synonyms
disinherit, renounce, repudiate, abjure, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, forsay, forswear, wash one's hands of
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
disown: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddisown: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
disown: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary