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disowning

/dis-ohn/US // dɪsˈoʊn //UK // (dɪsˈəʊn) //

不承认,不承认的,不承认的人

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.

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Examples

  • It is a very manly sentimentality; we need not be ashamed of sharing it; one should rather be ashamed of disowning its emotions.

  • Before, she had escaped from the toils of that folly of the past by disowning it; but now, she had voluntarily made it hers.

  • The Buckle had been Ronald's fairy godmother—yet his father did not blame him for abhorring and disowning it.

  • He wrote me a letter—how it found me out I know not—enclosing me a sum of money, and disowning me for ever.

  • The two 141 other falsities are, the "ill success of the play," and "my disowning it."