disband
verb (used with object)
to break up or dissolve (an organization).
disbanded
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past participleof disband.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof disband.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
disbandverb (used with object)to break up or dissolve (an organization).
Example Sentences
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In yet another sign that the company is tightening its focus on commercial AI applications, Google disbanded its AlphaFold research team in July.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Tegna disbanded, its shareholders were paid and top Tegna executives exited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay based on an original story by Spielberg, referenced real-life congressional testimony and reports from Project Blue Book, an Air Force program which investigated UFOs that was disbanded in 1969.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Pandemic Horde suffered such a staggering defeat that the group ultimately disbanded.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
In the months that followed, she returned to the temperance organizations that she had helped to organize just a few years before, but she found that many of the groups had disbanded.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
