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Definition of disavow : 1. To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.
2. To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.

Synonyms:

forswear, discard, refuse, recant, disconfirm, disallow, not be someone's keeper, recall, shirk, wash your hands of, accept, disacknowledge, disown, negative, gainsay, abjure, neglect

confute, dispute, abrogate, repeal, disprove, conflict, challenge, rejoin, contradict, rebut

disaffirm, withdraw, abolish, delete, revoke, eliminate, invalidate, dismiss, refute, divorce, reject, destroy, eradicate, disclaim, annul, negate, extinguish, nullify, obliterate, repudiate, neutralize, dissolve, undo, cancel, efface, veto

denounce

counterwork, counterbalance, invert, overturn, reverse, check

backslide, abdicate, renounce, cross, desert, defect, abnegate, deny, betray, abandon, retract

Usage examples:

• To announce an enormity against which the world protests, to disavow it with indignation, to swear by all the gods, to declare himself an honest man,- and then, at the moment when people are reassured, and laugh at the enormity in question, to execute it. - "Napoleon the Little", Victor Hugo.
• If in any matter He was bound, as a teacher of spiritual truth, to disavow Jewish superstition, surely Christ was so bound in this matter. - "The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians", G. G. Findlay.
• And I beg, in the most pointed manner, to disavow all connection with, or previous knowledge of, that gentleman's visit and conversation. - "Checkmate", Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.