verb (used with object)
- to deny or repudiate interest in or connection with; disavow; disown: disclaiming all participation.
- Law. to renounce a claim or right to.
- to reject the claims or authority of.
verb (used without object)
- Law. to renounce or repudiate a legal claim or right.
- Obsolete. to disavow interest.
verb
- (tr) to deny or renounce (any claim, connection, etc)
- (tr) to deny the validity or authority of
- law to renounce or repudiate (a legal claim or right)
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.