Definition of "disown" in English

verb

1. (transitive) 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.

2. (transitive) To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.

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.