disownest
disownest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of disown.
Meaning of disown
Verb
disown (third-person singular simple present disowns, present participle disowning, simple past and past participle disowned)
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
Questions about disownest
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- Disownest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of disown.
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