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disown

/dɪsˈəʊn/
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verb

  • To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.

    "Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris."

  • To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
  • 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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