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DISCLAIM
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they disclaim ... he / she / it disclaims
Past simple: disclaimed
Past participle: disclaimed
-ing form: disclaiming
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a disclaimer about
Example:
He disclaimed any responsibility
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "disclaim" is one way to...):
deny (declare untrue; contradict)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Antonym:
claim (assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing)
Derivation:
disclaimer ((law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Renounce a legal claim or title to
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "disclaim" is one way to...):
foreswear; quit; relinquish; renounce (turn away from; give up)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
claim (lay claim to; as of an idea)
Derivation:
disclaimer ((law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something)
Context examples:
Catherine coloured, and disclaimed again.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
