disown
Meaning of disown
verb
- 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.
- 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.
Information about disown
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of disown is: disowns.
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Hyphenation of disown
dis-own
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- disown is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
disown synonyms
Meaning disinherit:
Meaning :
Translation of disown
- Spanish: renunciar, rehusar, rechazar, negar, abjurar
- German: verleugnen
- Italian: rinnegare
- French: désavouer, renier, abjurer
Anagrams of disown
Words that rhyme with disown
sown, resown, unsown, oversown
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