disown
verb
dis·own
(ˌ)dis-ˈōn 
disowned; disowning; disowns
1
: to refuse to acknowledge as one's own
2
a
: to repudiate any connection or identification with
b
: to deny the validity or authority of
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Examples of disown in a Sentence
Her parents threatened to disown her if she didn't go back to school.
He was disowned for bringing shame to the family.
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Virdee stars Staz Nair as a Bradford cop hunting down a serial killer, as his own life is in chaos after he is disowned by his family for crossing the religious divide when marrying his wife.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
But Drake’s mentions of Future — who joined the Toronto rapper on 2015’s What a Time to Be Alive before, confusingly, seeming to disown it — are curiously limp.
—Paul Thompson, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024
This fear can quickly translate into passively or actively disowning the changes.
—Peter Follows, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
When his older brother, Fred Jr. (Charlie Carrick), spurned the family business to follow his dream of becoming a pilot, their father all but disowned him.
—EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
But Drake’s mentions of Future — who joined the Toronto rapper on 2015’s What a Time to Be Alive before, confusingly, seeming to disown it — are curiously limp.
—Paul Thompson, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024
This fear can quickly translate into passively or actively disowning the changes.
—Peter Follows, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
When his older brother, Fred Jr. (Charlie Carrick), spurned the family business to follow his dream of becoming a pilot, their father all but disowned him.
—EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Disown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disown. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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