discard vs disown

discard

verb
  • To throw away, to reject. 

  • To make a discard; to throw out a card. 

  • To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge. 

noun
  • A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later. 

  • Anything discarded. 

  • A discarded playing card in a card game. 

disown

verb
  • To repudiate any connection to; to renounce. 

  • To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session. 

  • To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. 

How often have the words discard and disown occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )