disestablish
verb (used with object)
to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
disestablished
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past participleof disestablish.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 disestablish.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
disestablishverb (used with object)to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
Example Sentences
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The structure of state government and public infrastructure were built on the understanding that Congress had disestablished the former reservations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
“Wagner was going to be disestablished and we protested that decision,” Mr. Prigozhin said Monday.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
Since then, lower courts have found the reservations of five other Native American tribes were also never disestablished, including the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole and Quapaw.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
It was launched in 1985 and disestablished in 2002 as the Pentagon reorganized in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2019
They observed the significant omission of a State church in the Declaration of Rights, and feared that they would be despoiled and the Church disestablished.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
