disown
11disown — [[t]dɪso͟ʊn[/t]] disowns, disowning, disowned VERB If you disown someone or something, you say or show that you no longer want to have any connection with them or any responsibility for them. [V n] The man who murdered the girl is no son of mine …
12disown — 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 didnt go through with marrying Count Paris. Syn: disavow, disclaim …
13disown — dis|own [ dıs oun ] verb transitive to say that you no longer want to be connected with someone or something, for example because you are ashamed of them: I think my parents would disown me if I ever got a tattoo …
14disown — [dɪsˈəʊn] verb [T] to say that you no longer want to be connected with someone or something I think my parents would disown me if I ever got a tattoo.[/ex] …
15Disown (band) — For a definition of the word disown , see the Wiktionary entry disown. Disown Origin Ohio, United States Genres Industrial rock Years active 2000 – Present …
16Disown (Unix) — In bash shell, disown builtin command is used to remove jobs from the job table, or to mark jobs so that SIGHUP is not sent to them if the parent shell receives it (e.g. if the user log out). See also Nohup, a POSIX command to ignore the HUP… …
17disown — transitive verb Date: 1630 1. to refuse to acknowledge as one s own 2. a. to repudiate any connection or identification with b. to deny the validity or authority of • disownment noun …
18disown — Synonyms and related words: abjure, assert the contrary, back down, back out, backwater, belie, brush aside, chuck, chuck out, climb down, contemn, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, crawfish out, cross, cut off, decline, deny …
19disown — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. disinherit; disclaim, repudiate, deny, disavow. See negation, nullification. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. repudiate, cast off, deny, retract; see abandon 2 , discard , disinherit . III (Roget s 3… …
20disown — dis|own [dısˈəun US ˈoun] v [T not in progressive] to say that you no longer want to be connected with someone or something, especially a member of your family or something that you are responsible for ▪ Frankly, I m not surprised her family… …
