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What does disown mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
  2. (computing) To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session.
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Under the sheer weight of numbers, grandparents, aunts and uncles have begun to disown their own.
Neither do you disown a book that provided ideas and impulses to a generation of political science professionals.
Her parents were furious when they learned of her condition and threatened to disinherit or disown her.
Most puzzlingly, the Liberal Democrat leader appeared to disown his party's own manifesto twice.
My family didn't disown us but they wouldn't come near us because he was there.
We prefer to think of ourselves as healthy and indestructible, and we disown our ailments and frailties.

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