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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disclaim
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
responsibility
▪ In spite of this, Hedley Byrne did not recover its loss since the reports submitted by Heller &038; Partners had expressly disclaimed responsibility.
▪ Janir held his hands in the air, disclaiming all responsibility.
▪ The school disclaimed any responsibility for his death.
▪ Of course, if they do, politicians can disclaim responsibility; but ducking responsibility is fatal in a democracy.
▪ By their very nature the program source code is provided, usually with documentation disclaiming all responsibility in its use.
▪ These were the boom and bust years, for which Major has conveniently disclaimed all responsibility.
▪ Without the consensus achieved in Cabinet, ministers are free to disclaim responsibility for unpopular policies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The group has disclaimed all responsibility for the attack.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Businesses will be able to disclaim all or any part of the initial allowance if they wish.
▪ Janir held his hands in the air, disclaiming all responsibility.
▪ Not only did they disclaim any career but motherhood, they even began to question the need for the higher education itself.
▪ The King has disclaimed his love for his offspring and therefore broken the family bond that Cordelia speaks of.
▪ The school disclaimed any responsibility for his death.
▪ What precisely is being disclaimed or denied, the story or its possession?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disclaim

Disclaim \Dis*claim"\, v. t. To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.
--Blackstone.

Disclaim in, Disclaim from, to disown; to disavow. [Obs.] ``Nature disclaims in thee.''
--Shak.

Disclaim

Disclaim \Dis*claim"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disclaimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disclaiming.]

  1. To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.

    He calls the gods to witness their offense; Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence.
    --Dryden.

    He disclaims the authority of Jesus.
    --Farmer.

  2. To deny, as a claim; to refuse.

    The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed.
    --Milman.

  3. (Law) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.
    --Burrill.

    Syn: To disown; disavow; renounce; repudiate.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disclaim

c.1400, from Anglo-French disclaimer, Old French desclamer "disclaim, disavow," from des- (see dis-) + clamer "to call, cry out, claim" (see claim (v.)). Related: Disclaimed; disclaiming.

Wiktionary
disclaim

vb. 1 To renounce all claim to; to deny ownership of or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject. 2 To deny, as a claim; to refuse. 3 (context legal English) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.

WordNet
disclaim

  1. v. renounce a legal claim or title to [ant: claim]

  2. make a disclaimer about; "He disclaimed any responsibility" [ant: claim]

Usage examples of "disclaim".

Some of them disclaimed the use of living animals in teacher, or the use of animals higher in the scale than turtles or frogs.

The Carmathians were ripe for rebellion, since they disclaimed the title of the house of Abbas, and abhorred the worldly pomp of the caliphs of Bagdad.

In his last visit to Rome, he piously disclaimed and insulted the superstition of his ancestors, by refusing to lead the military procession of the equestrian order, and to offer the public vows to the Jupiter of the Capitoline Hill.

We deplore the unnecessary deaths of the three passengers aboard the Fokker Friendship but disclaim all responsibility.

The secessionists disclaim revolutionary principles, and hold that the right of secession is anterior to the convention, a right which the convention could neither give, nor take away, because inherent in the very conception of a sovereign State.

This aversion--the very antipodes to hypocrisy--leads men not only to disclaim the virtues they have, but to pretend to the vices they have not.

In disclaiming any moral intentions and describing himself as a soldier of fortune, the protagonist of The False Burton Combs sets the Race Williams pattern.

We now returned to Edinburgh, where I passed some days with men of learning, whose names want no advancement from my commemoration, or with women of elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise.

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The pious horror of his antagonists provoked them to disclaim all sensual circumstances of conception and delivery.

One method, indeed, there is of killing, and that the basest and most execrable of all, which bears an exact analogy to the vice here disclaimed against, and that is poison: a means of revenge so base, and yet so horrible, that is was once wisely distinguished by our laws from all other murders, in the peculiar severity of the punishment.

Socrates, though he affectedly disclaims all hopes of favor or fame, composes an elaborate panegyric on the emperor, and cautiously suppresses the merits of his sister, (l.

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In his last visit to Rome, he piously disclaimed and insulted the superstition of his ancestors, by refusing to lead the military procession of the equestrian order, and to offer the public vows to the Jupiter of the Capitoline Hill.

The inflexible spirit of the Roman senate had always disclaimed the unequal conditions which were extorted from the distress of their captive armies.