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How to spell disowned

Disowned is spelled D-I-S-O-W-N-E-D.

hear itdis·owned/dɪs'oʊnd/verbPrefixes and work

What it means: Refused to claim or accept as one's own.

In a sentence: The angry king disowned his selfish son and banished him from the kingdom.

The part people get wrong

Add -ed directly to the base word.

Same family: disown, disowning, disowns. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

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