disown

«disown» in Mova's school dictionary: to refuse to say you know them or belong to them any… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (disowns, disowned, disowning)

meaning for a pupil

To disown someone is to refuse to say you know them or belong to them any more; to give up all claim to them. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales, a parent or master turns away a child or servant; in old tales, a patron is cast off for wrongdoing.

examples

• The king disowned his son. tree →
• She disowned the bad work and said it was not hers. tree →
• The family disowned him after the theft. tree →
• He tried to disown his old friend. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «disown» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.