Disowning — synonyms, definition

1. disowning (Noun)

disownment

disowning (Noun) — Refusal to acknowledge as one's own.

renunciation repudiation

2. disowning (Verb)

disinheriting renouncing repudiating

disowning (Verb) — Prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting. ex. "You cannot disown a child simply by failing to mention that child in your will"

disowning (Verb) — Cast off. ex. "She disowned her husband"

depriving rejecting abjuring apostatising apostatizing denying forswearing rebutting recanting refuting resiling retracting swallowing taking back tergiversating unsaying withdrawing