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# disown

verb (disowns, disowned, disowning)

«disown» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disown/#m1)

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

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «disown» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disown/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«disown» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/disown.html) on Mova free.