| 单词 | disown |
| 释义 | disown (once / 2747 pages) v To disown someone is to reject them. If you disown your brother, you refuse to have anything to do with him: not only do you not speak or have contact, but it's as if he's no longer related to you. When one person disowns another, it's because of some terrible argument or deep-rooted conflict. Although it's uncommon to disown another person, when it happens it's usually a family member who's cast off. Your mom might threaten to disown you after you drive her car into the mailbox, but she's probably not serious. Disown takes the root word own, meaning "to have or to hold," and adds the Latin prefix dis, "not" or "do the opposite of." WORD FAMILYdisown: disowned, disowning, disownment, disowns+/disownment: disownments/own: disown, owned, owner, owning, ownly, owns/owned: unowned/owner: ownerless, owners, ownership/ownership: ownerships USAGE EXAMPLESShe disowned her foster son a year later. BBC(Dec 05, 2016) It is not clear who will agree to serve as his specialists—nearly the entire Republican cohort of Asia hands has disowned him. Economist(Nov 09, 2016) Many officials from previous Republican administrations politically disowned Trump during the campaign, calling him unqualified. Seattle Times(Nov 24, 2016) 1v cast off Syn|Hypo|Hyper renounce, repudiate apostatise, apostatize, tergiversate abandon one's beliefs or allegiances abjure, forswear, recant, resile, retractformally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure swallow, take back, unsay, withdrawtake back what one has said rebut, refuteoverthrow by argument, evidence, or proof denyrefuse to accept or believe abnegatedeny or renounce contradict, controvert, opposebe resistant to answergive a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) reject refuse to accept or acknowledge 2v prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting Syn|Ant|Hyper disinherit bequeath, leave, will leave or give by will after one's death leave, leave behindbe survived by after one's death give, impart, leave, pass ontransmit (knowledge or skills) deprive keep from having, keeping, or obtaining |
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