disown
v.to officially say that you are no longer related to someone, or to stop supporting a person or idea. In computing, it means to stop being the parent of a process so it can run on its own.
v.to formally renounce a relationship or responsibility; to cease being the parent of a process in a computing context. Transitive — requires a direct object.
“The family decided to disown him after he stole the money.”
“In Unix systems, a process can disown its child to allow it to continue running after the parent program has exited.”
“The company chose to disown the controversial marketing campaign, issuing a public apology to distance the brand from the backlash it had generated among its core demographic.”
From dis- + own.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.