disown

Verb

disown (third-person singular simple present disowns, present participle disowning, simple past and past participle disowned)

1. (transitive) 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.
   • Here is a Proclamation for a Prince: that proclaims him in whoſe name it is emitted [James II of England], to be the greateſt Tyrant that ever lived in the world, and their Revolt who have diſowned him to be the juſteſt that ever was.1744, Alexander Shiels, “Period VI.”, in A Hind Let Loose, Edinburgh: Reprinted by R. Drummond and Company, →OCLC, pages 167–168
2. (transitive) To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
   • He disowns me, and he scorns me / But when we're alone he tells me I'm his very own1968, Don Covay, “I'm Gonne Take What He's Got”, in Tell Mama, performed by Etta James

   Synonyms:

   disavow, disclaim, abjure, deny, forsay, forswear, renounce, repudiate, wash one's hands of

3. (Unix, transitive) 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.