When it has been disavowed, for one. Let’s say you make a solemn pledge to eat green vegetables every day of the week and twice on Sundays. If a few months down the cruciferous …

DISAVOWED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of disavow 2. to say that you know nothing about something, or…. Learn more.

DISAVOWED meaning: 1. past simple and past participle of disavow 2. to say that you know nothing about something, or…. Learn more.

DISAVOW definition: 1. to say that you know nothing about something, or that you have no responsibility for or…. Learn more.

disavow - refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children" deny - declare untrue; contradict; "He denied the allegations"; "She denied that she had taken money"

Synonyms for DISAVOWED: denied, refuted, rejected, contradicted, disowned, disclaimed, repudiated, disallowed; Antonyms of DISAVOWED: admitted, confirmed, acknowledged, owned, adopted, allowed, accepted, conceded

To disavow is to deny support for someone or something. You might feel dissed if your biggest donor decides to suddenly disavow you in your run for president. Disavow comes from a combination of the Old French prefix des- meaning "opposite of" and the word avoer meaning to "acknowledge, accept, recognize."

Definition of disavow verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. disavow something to state publicly that you have no knowledge of something or that you are not responsible for something/somebody. They disavowed claims of a split in the party. Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French desavouer. Want to learn more?

But I am no less your son than Papa's, and to disavow my Norman blood would be to disavow you. She refused to look at the bagged object in their hands, eager to disavow it, even though …

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