disunite
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disunite (third-person singular simple present disunites, present participle disuniting, simple past and past participle disunited)
- (transitive) To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
- 1516, Sir Thomas More, “Of Their Military Discipline”, in Utopia:
- If they cannot disunite them by domestic broils, then they engage their neighbours against them.
- 1863, Charles Reade, chapter 44, in Hard Cash:
- Secrets disunite a family.
- (transitive) To separate, sever, or split.
- 1899, Robert Barr, chapter 16, in Jennie Baxter, Journalist:
- I have discovered how to disunite that force and that particle.
- (intransitive) To disintegrate; to come apart.
- 1843, Robert Browning, A Blot In The 'Scutcheon, act I:
- You cannot bind me more to you, my lord.
Farewell till we renew... I trust, renew
A converse ne'er to disunite again.
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cause disagreement or alienation among or within
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separate, sever, or split
disintegrate; come apart
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disunite f pl
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disunite f pl
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disunite
- inflection of disunire: