disowns

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.