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# disown

«disown» in Mova's school dictionary: **to refuse to say you know them or belong to them any…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (disowns, disowned, disowning)

### meaning for a pupil

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disown/#m1)

### sense 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disown/#x1)
- She disowned the bad work and said it was not hers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disown/#x2)
- The family disowned him after the theft. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disown/#x3)
- He tried to disown his old friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disown/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disown» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disown/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.