Synonyms

disjoin

American

[dis-join] / dɪsˈdʒɔɪn /

verb (used with object)

to undo or prevent the junction or union of; disunite; separate.

verb (used without object)

to become disunited; separate.

disjoin British

/ dɪsˈdʒɔɪn /

verb

to disconnect or become disconnected; separate

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Other Word Forms

disjoinable

adjective

Etymology

Origin of disjoin

1475–85; Middle English disjoinen < Old French desjoindre < Latin disjungere, equivalent to dis- dis- ¹ + jungere to join

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disjoin

"As the body metabolizes the rapamycin, the two fragments disjoin, deactivating the system."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023

Ideas thronged into my mind which I was unable to disjoin or to regulate.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown

Approaches, also, are effected according to the agreements or likenesses of the states of life; for agreement or likeness of life conjoins, and disagreement and unlikeness disjoin.

From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg

"I may disjoin my hand, but not my faith."

From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

Jefferson said: The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of freedom may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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