FAMILYto say that you no longer want to be connected with someone or something, especially a member of your family or something that you are responsible for 与〔某人〕断绝关系;否认与〔某物〕有关
Frankly, I’m not surprised her family disowned her.
坦率地讲,她家里人和她断绝关系我并不感到奇怪。
Since 1960, Kubrick has virtually disowned the film.
自1960年起,库布里克实际上已经与这部影片划清界线了。
Examples from the Corpus
disown• I know men who have been disowned.• I was surrounded on the terraces by compatriots I wanted to disown.• It is a tag he disowns.• Jen's parents threatened to disown her if she married Omar.• She has welcomed the oppressed and disowned of the world to this paranoiac dreamscape for nearly a hundred years.• They must disown the action through writing to all members who could be affected.• Some of us disown these qualities on a conscious level, and project them on to some one else.