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disavowdis‧a‧vow /ˌdɪsəˈvaʊ/ verb [transitive] formal ![](img/spkr_b.png) VERB TABLEdisavow |
Present | I, you, we, they | disavow | | he, she, it | disavows | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | disavowed | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have disavowed | | he, she, it | has disavowed | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had disavowed | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will disavow | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have disavowed |
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Present | I | am disavowing | | he, she, it | is disavowing | | you, we, they | are disavowing | Past | I, he, she, it | was disavowing | | you, we, they | were disavowing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been disavowing | | he, she, it | has been disavowing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been disavowing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be disavowing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been disavowing |
- The bus drivers' union has disavowed any involvement in the violence.
- Acknowledging the confusion, the Supreme Court in 1990 disavowed its earlier opinions and announced a new approach.
- Barbara was subjected to heinous torture, yet refused to disavow her faith.
- But the government is unlikely to press ahead with what the Academy has disavowed.
- Could he disavow his father and live?
- Ten federal researchers were listed as contributors, but seven of them quickly disavowed any connection with it.
- We saw too the marked trend to disavow deviance amongst the women whose personal histories are discussed in Chapter 2.
to say that you are not responsible for something, that you do not know about it, or that you are not involved with it—disavowal noun [countable, uncountable] |