disowning

1. VERB 与…断绝关系;否认对…的责任;否认…是自己的
   If you disown someone or something, you say or show that you no longer want to have any connection with them or any responsibility for them.
   1. The man who murdered the girl is no son of mine. I disown him.
      杀害那女孩的人不配做我的儿子。我要与他脱离关系。
   2. Those comments were later disowned by an official army spokesman.
      这些话随后遭到了军方一位官方发言人的否认。

1. He didn't much care what happened to his work afterwards, to the extent of sometimes disowning it, or even not recognising it.
   他并不很在意自己完成后的作品何去何从，至于有时不承认自己是画的作者，甚至于有时认不出自己曾画过的画。
2. He took out a newspaper ad disowning it.
   他在报纸刊登广告道歉。

noun

1. refusal to acknowledge as one's own

   Synonym:    disownment