disown
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Is disown a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.Examples: "Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris."; "Here is a Proclamation for a Prince: that proclaims him in whoſe name it is emitted [James II of England], to be the greateſt Tyrant that ever lived in the world, and their Revolt who have diſowned him to be the juſteſt that ever was."transitive
2. (transitive) To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.Examples: "He disowns me, and he scorns me / But when we're alone he tells me I'm his very own"Synonyms: disavow, disclaim, abjure, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, forsaytransitive
3. (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.Unixtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary