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disowned

disowned is the simple past and past participle of disown.

Meaning of 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.
  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.

Words formed from disowned

Questions about disowned

What is disowned the simple past and past participle of?
Disowned is the simple past and past participle of disown.

Words near disowned in the dictionary

  1. disorients
  2. disour
  3. disours
  4. disown
  5. disownable
  6. disowned
  7. disownee
  8. disownees
  9. disowner
  10. disowners
  11. disownest

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