Usually means: Rejects any relationship or association.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. disowns: Merriam-Webster
  2. disowns: Collins English Dictionary
  3. disowns: Vocabulary.com
  4. Disowns, disowns: Wordnik
  5. disowns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. disowns: Wiktionary
  7. disowns: Dictionary.com
  8. disowns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. disowns: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. disowns: Legal dictionary

(Note: See disown as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (disown)

verb:  (transitive) To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
verb:  (transitive) To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
verb:  (transitive, computing, Unix) To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session.
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