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disown
What does disown mean?
disown (verb): to repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use disown in a sentence?
- Please don't disown me. (Tatoeba sentence #10079522 by ddnktr, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce disown?
/dɪˈsoʊn/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does disown come from?
From dis- + own.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “disown” mean?
to change greatly the appearance or form of
Not quite: that's what transform means.
make more intense, stronger, or more marked
Not quite: that's what compound means.
be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
Not quite: that's what insist means.
to repudiate any connection to; to renounce
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