disown
verb (disowns, disowned, disowning)
Everyday
To disown someone is to refuse to say you know them or belong to them any more; to give up all claim to them. tree →
In the lessons
in tales, a parent or master turns away a child or servant; in old tales, a patron is cast off for wrongdoing.
Examples
- The king disowned his son. tree →
- She disowned the bad work and said it was not hers. tree →
- The family disowned him after the theft. tree →
- He tried to disown his old friend. tree →
Note
nothing for maths
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «disown» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «disown» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
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