Usually means: Rejecting familial relationship and obligations.
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  1. disown: Merriam-Webster
  2. disown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disown: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disown: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disown, disown: Wordnik
  7. disown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disown: Wiktionary
  9. disown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disown: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Disown, disown: Dictionary.com
  13. disown: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. disown: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Disown (Unix), Disown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Disown: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. disown: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. disown: Rhymezone
  19. disown: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. disown: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. disown: FreeDictionary.org
  22. disown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. disown: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. disown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disown: Legal dictionary

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  1. disown: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Disown: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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