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disown

verb as in refuse to acknowledge

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“I have a Tesla that I'm about to drive over a cliff because I don’t like what he be saying about his trans child, that made me mad. You don’t treat them babies like that. You don’t disown your babies,” the comic said.

From Salon

Musk claimed she was “killed by the woke mind virus” and defended his choice to disown her.

From Salon

“It’s just a big mess that DeSantis created and now he’s trying to disown it, but I don’t know if he’ll be able to distance himself from this because he campaigned on it so hard,” said House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell.

The party clearly messed up in the selection of its candidate and in initially hesitating to disown him.

From BBC

Nonetheless, disown Mr Ali they did.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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