verb Download 🔗Share To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. Examples : "Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris." family action right moral society law human Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To repudiate any connection to; to renounce. Examples : "The angry teenager disowned his family after they grounded him for a month. " family action society state Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session. Examples : "The programmer disowned the long-running data processing script, allowing it to finish even after he logged out for the night. " computing technology technical internet process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading