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v. refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children"

disclaim, renounce title to

v. renounce a legal claim or title to

discard, toss, fling, put away, throw out, chuck out, throw away, cast away, cast out, cast aside, toss away, toss out, dispose of

v. throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"

disinherit, disown

v. prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

condemn, judge unfit, declare unfit

v. declare or judge unfit; "The building was condemned by the inspector"

discount, disregard, ignore, brush off, dismiss, brush aside, push aside

v. bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"

disregard, neglect, slight, ignore, cold-shoulder

v. have no respect for

show, establish, prove, demonstrate, shew

v. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"

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