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DISAVOW

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with

Example:

Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "disavow" is one way to...):

deny (declare untrue; contradict)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disavow"):

deny (refuse to recognize or acknowledge)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

avow (admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about)

Derivation:

disavowal (denial of any connection with or knowledge of)

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