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Meanings of disown in English

Portuguese
renunciar
Catalan
repudiar
Spanish
repudiar

Cast off.

renunciar
Catalan
desheretar
Spanish
desheredar

Prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting.

desheretar
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Examples for "renounce"
Examples for "renounce"
1
The LTTE must also renounce terrorism and violence permanently, the statement said.
Reuters
2
The United States has said the Maoists need to finally renounce violence.
Reuters
3
Israel and its allies shun Hamas for its refusal to renounce violence.
Reuters
4
The Taliban had refused to renounce violence while the talks were underway.
Reuters
5
My lord Duke offers you a million crowns to renounce your claim.
The lady elizabeth
1
Yet Zia felt he could not afford to repudiate his religious ally.
Ghost wars
2
You expel beauty, Monsieur Choulette; you repudiate her, nude and in tears.
The Red Lily — Volume 02
3
They often want to repudiate one kind of life to try another.
The new yorker
4
Good men are trying to believe what in their hearts they repudiate.
Love's Final Victory / Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis...
5
There's a mixture of idiocy in it the Devil might fairly repudiate.
Hard Cash

To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge.

Usage of disown in English
1
My parents wouldn't disown me, but it would certainly change our relationship.
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest ...
2
Ironic distance -you disown what you say to a certain extent.
The Guardian
3
Do we disown our family, friends and neighbours when they embarrass us?
The Irish Times
4
If he did not intend this, let Mr Deasy now disown it.
The Irish Times
5
I will disown you-andmy curse shall be your inheritance; remember this.
Frederick the Great and His Court
6
His family should disown him because he's a disgrace to them, too.
The Guardian
7
We showed it to Sir Barnes Newcome, who-whocould not disown it.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
8
I'll not disown her, may the devil take me if I do.
Doctor Pascal
9
She still resolved to neglect, though she could no longer disown him.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
10
Do you think I want a separation because you disown the church?
Fran
11
Poor things, thought Marston; they are mine, how can I disown them?
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
12
What shall I do, now he is gone, if you disown me?
A Simpleton
13
Obama's refusal to disown Wright left him open to attacks from the right.
Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
14
It is too late now to credibly disown the course of the recession.
The Guardian
15
I do not disown my former thoughts; but nothing can ever recal them.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
16
What I have written I shall not disown in any company.
Chivalry
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Translations for disown
Portuguese
renunciar
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