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DISAVOW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disavow mean?
• DISAVOW (verb)
The verb DISAVOW has 1 sense:
1. refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with
Familiarity information: DISAVOW used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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... he / she / it disavows Past simple: disavowed
Past participle: disavowed
-ing form: disavowing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children
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)
Context examples
He disavowed nothing: he seemed as if he would defy all things.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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