disown
verb (used with object)
to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce.
had disowned
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past perfectof disown.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In the book, Barbara’s devout Christian parents had disowned her when she married Herb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
He was homeless, living in a London squat, miles away from his family who had disowned him.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2021
They staged rare protests, and we spoke to some outside a labor camp for Saudi Binladen Group, the construction giant whose owning family had disowned their son, Osama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2020
Since Ms. Bond and her nominal adversary agreed on the central issue in the case, the court appointed a lawyer, Stephen R. McAllister, to argue for the position the government had disowned.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2011
She had no grandparents to ask—her father’s parents were deceased, and her mother’s had disowned them for reasons Janet didn’t fully understand.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
