verb🔗ShareTo refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own."Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris."familyrightmoralactionattitudeChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo repudiate any connection to; to renounce."After his son robbed a bank, the father publicly disowned him. "familyactionmorallawChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session."The programmer disowned the data processing job, so it continued running overnight even after she logged off. "computingtechnologyprocessinternetChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
