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单词 disown
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Definition of disown in English:

disown

verb dɪsˈəʊndɪsˈoʊn
[with object]
  • Refuse to acknowledge or maintain any connection with.

    Lovell's rich family had disowned him because of his marriage
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But lots of under-age girls believe their families will disown them if they find out they are pregnant, and most are wrong.
    • One man was disowned by his family when he married a woman they didn't approve of.
    • Recently we have been told how he and Sophie were now shot of each other with residual bitterness on both sides, with her predictably now disowning all previous suggestions he was innocent of his drugs test or had drinks spiked.
    • Yes, he disowns his mother and his wife attempted suicide as a result of being publicly slandered by him, but we also know how much he cares about his daughter.
    • My family will disown me upon hearing the news that I surrendered.
    • He infects his wife and disowns her for acquiring it.
    • Michael Wincott plays his brother who disowns him.
    • The trust of the disinherited was further shattered and disowned by the disingenuous attitude of the state.
    • To make it worse, my parents saw her as being below our family, so they disowned me the day I married her.
    • In his sleep, without a word being spoken, he reaches out and says to me: Even if the whole world disowns you, you're still my big brother and I will always look up to you.
    • Family members would disown you if they knew you watched it.
    • In the latter, a meatpacker disowns his own brother for crossing the picket line.
    • Probably once Jessica was disowned from the family she was simultaneously fired from the job.
    • When he tried to bring a lawsuit against the clergy, his family disowned him.
    • ‘If I did I would be disowning my family,’ she shuddered obviously thinking of the consequences.
    • My family didn't disown us but they wouldn't come near us because he was there.
    • About the same time his family disowned him and he was stripped of his Saudi citizenship.
    • He's warned him that, if he gets involved in violent extremism, the family will disown him…
    • I expected to be thrown out on the street, and to be disowned by my family.
    • He lives with his uncle, a minor aristocrat who has blown everything except his title, and his wife, who has been disowned by her family.
    Synonyms
    reject, cast off, cast aside, abandon, repudiate, renounce, deny
    turn one's back on, wash one's hands of, have nothing more to do with, end relations with
    disinherit, cut off (without a penny)
    informal ditch, drop, send packing
    archaic forsake

Derivatives

  • disowner

  • noun
    • A man who should attempt a perfect exploration of the human frame by a survey purely of its cutaneous and muscular surfaces, having first carefully cut the nerves that conduct to the battery, and convey the wonderful, incomprehensible spiritual electricity of the brain, would succeed as well as do such disowners of all creation's commencing and design.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For information about how the comics community and Alan Moore (writer and disillusioned disowner of the original graphic novel) is reacting… check Comic Book Resources.
      • To make matters worse, the Morning Star published only the unofficial condemnation, and not the original official release or the general secretary's subsequent disowner.
  • disownment

  • noundɪsˈəʊnm(ə)ntdɪsˈoʊnmənt
    • Her mother was probably looking down on her with disgust and disownment for her.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It ended with his disownment and, in 1871, his sudden death from smallpox.
      • Facing virtual disownment, Victor must now struggle to reconcile his outdoor persona with his indoor realities.
      • His neurotic mother sends him letters of adoration, then letters of disownment.
      • Not once did they mention their previous disownment.
 
 

Definition of disown in US English:

disown

verbdɪsˈoʊndisˈōn
[with object]
  • Refuse to acknowledge or maintain any connection with.

    Howard's rich family had disowned him because of his marriage
    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘If I did I would be disowning my family,’ she shuddered obviously thinking of the consequences.
    • He's warned him that, if he gets involved in violent extremism, the family will disown him…
    • Yes, he disowns his mother and his wife attempted suicide as a result of being publicly slandered by him, but we also know how much he cares about his daughter.
    • Michael Wincott plays his brother who disowns him.
    • Probably once Jessica was disowned from the family she was simultaneously fired from the job.
    • Family members would disown you if they knew you watched it.
    • He infects his wife and disowns her for acquiring it.
    • In his sleep, without a word being spoken, he reaches out and says to me: Even if the whole world disowns you, you're still my big brother and I will always look up to you.
    • One man was disowned by his family when he married a woman they didn't approve of.
    • In the latter, a meatpacker disowns his own brother for crossing the picket line.
    • Recently we have been told how he and Sophie were now shot of each other with residual bitterness on both sides, with her predictably now disowning all previous suggestions he was innocent of his drugs test or had drinks spiked.
    • But lots of under-age girls believe their families will disown them if they find out they are pregnant, and most are wrong.
    • When he tried to bring a lawsuit against the clergy, his family disowned him.
    • I expected to be thrown out on the street, and to be disowned by my family.
    • The trust of the disinherited was further shattered and disowned by the disingenuous attitude of the state.
    • He lives with his uncle, a minor aristocrat who has blown everything except his title, and his wife, who has been disowned by her family.
    • My family will disown me upon hearing the news that I surrendered.
    • My family didn't disown us but they wouldn't come near us because he was there.
    • About the same time his family disowned him and he was stripped of his Saudi citizenship.
    • To make it worse, my parents saw her as being below our family, so they disowned me the day I married her.
    Synonyms
    reject, cast off, cast aside, abandon, repudiate, renounce, deny
 
 
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