MEANING
1. To deny a connection with a person, action, or belief, sometimes to avoid responsibility.
2. To reject someone as no longer belonging to one’s family or group.
Use it for
Someone publicly denies a statement or severs a personal or group relationship.Expresses the painful act of denying a connection, withdrawing responsibility, or rejecting a family bond.
On the page
The minister disowned the statement after it drew public criticism.
Word forms
- Base
- disown
- Past tense
- disowned
- Past participle
- disowned
- Present participle
- disowning
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- disown
- Present continuous
- am/is/are disowning
- Present perfect
- have/has disowned
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been disowning
- Past
- disowned
- Past continuous
- was/were disowning
- Past perfect
- had disowned
- Past perfect continuous
- had been disowning
- Future
- will disown
- Future continuous
- will be disowning
- Future perfect
- will have disowned
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been disowning
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