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."familyrightactionmoralstatesocietyhumanattitudeChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo repudiate any connection to; to renounce."After his son committed a serious crime, the father publicly announced he was disowning him. "familysocietylawactionmoralstateChat 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 was careful to disown the long-running data analysis script so it would continue processing even after he logged out for the night. "computingtechnologyprocessinternetsystemChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
