How to pronounce disown
Listen to disown in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“disown” in real sentences
65 clips in the index · 5 American · 8 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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no more disown Jeremiah Wright, his pastor, than I can disown my white grandmother who said
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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Your mother wants to disown you.
NIH · hear it here
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Parents very rarely disown their progeny.
The School of Life · hear it here
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my father would disown me for.
The Moth · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of disown. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.