with extended application. Also const. of (Scottish): To renounce. Obsolete.

transitive. To refuse to own, acknowledge, or be associated with; to disclaim knowledge of, responsibility for, or approbation of; to disown…

transitive. To refuse to recognize, acquiesce in, submit to, adopt, or †allow (a rule, command, practice, etc.) (in early use in legal contexts)…

transitive. To refuse to continue to recognize or abide by (a law, authority, etc.); to repudiate.

= disavow, v.

transitive. To refuse to acknowledge or accept; to reject, repudiate; = disavow, v. Also with infinitive as object.

transitive. To refuse to admit or acknowledge; to deny. Also intransitive: to make a denial.

figurative. to throw (also cast, fling,etc.) overboard: to cast aside, discard, reject, renounce.

transitive. To decline to acknowledge; to renounce, repudiate, disown.

transitive. To forswear; to abandon, abjure, quit.

transitive. To fail to know or acknowledge.

= disavouch, v., disavow, v.

To abjure something, esp. intoxicating drink (cf. to swear off —— at phrasal verbs 1). More recently, with object expressed. Chiefly U.S.

transitive. U.S. slang. To abandon or discard (a friend or companion); spec. to end a romantic relationship with; to throw over, turn down. Now rare.

figurative. Chiefly U.S. to go into the discard (and variants): to be abandoned, rejected, or consigned to oblivion. Cf. sense 2b.

transferred and figurative. To defeat, frustrate; to abandon, discard; to jilt. (See also quot. 1899.) slang (originally U.S.).

colloquial (originally U.S.). transitive. To dismiss, reject, or get rid of (a person or thing). In later use, esp. in the context of social media…