单词 | disown |
释义 | disownWord family (noun) owner ownership (verb) own disown From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdisowndis‧own /dɪsˈəʊn $ -ˈoʊn/ verb [transitive]FAMILYto say that you no longer want to be connected with someone or something, especially a member of your family or something that you are responsible for Frankly, I’m not surprised her family disowned her. Since 1960, Kubrick has virtually disowned the film.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusdisown• I know men who have been disowned.• I was surrounded on the terraces by compatriots I wanted to disown.• It is a tag he disowns.• Jen's parents threatened to disown her if she married Omar.• She has welcomed the oppressed and disowned of the world to this paranoiac dreamscape for nearly a hundred years.• They must disown the action through writing to all members who could be affected.• Some of us disown these qualities on a conscious level, and project them on to some one else. |
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