Synonyms for disown
Definitions
- v. 1
To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
Related words
- Word family
- disownment
Forms
- Past participle
- disowned
e.g. disowned → repudiated, renounced, denied, rejected…
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A person may deny, disavow, disclaim, disown what has been truly or falsely imputed to him or supposed to be his. He may deny his signature, disavow the act of his agent, disown his child; he may repudiate a just claim or a base suggestion.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- deny You can't deny the fact that she had a hand in it.
- reject Voters may yet reject the misbegotten 'Dream Act'.
- renounce I renounce everything as long as I can be with you.
- repudiate My parents would repudiate my brother if they ever found out he was gay.
- disinherit My father is threatening to disinherit me.
By length
- 4 letters
- deny2
- 5 letters
- unsay
- 6 letters
- ignore2, reject2, revoke2, recant2, abjure
- 7 letters
- swallow2, retract2, disavow3
- 8 letters
- withdraw2, renounce2, abdicate3, disallow3, disclaim2, forswear2
- 9 letters
- repudiate4
- 10 letters
- disinherit
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (deny2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- renier