disunite
Americanverb (used with object)
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to sever the union of; separate; disjoin.
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to set at variance; alienate.
The issue disunited the party members.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to separate or become separate; disrupt
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(tr) to set at variance; estrange
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Origin of disunite
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After so long spent united by shared suffering, Rock argues – no, he preaches – that black people must disunite in order to disown the criminal minority among them.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012
Every Indian leader except Mohandas Gandhi had agreed that they could not unite, but could not agree how to disunite.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moscow dismissed it as an attempt "to disunite the Arab countries."
From Time Magazine Archive
"There are far more things that unite Britain and Russia," said Georgy Malenkov at an official dinner in Glasgow later, "than things that disunite us."
From Time Magazine Archive
If those States should disunite from the other States, for not including them in the temporary continuance of this traffic, they might solicit and obtain aid from foreign Powers.”
From The Slavery Question Speech of Hon. John M. Landrum, of La., Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 27, 1860 by Landrum, John M.
"Any dissolution of the coalition essentially would make the right of centre look brittle and fragile and disunited," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
"Celtic disunited are not the Celtic that people should be aware of," he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
We have entered another age of disunited nations, an era when mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
In early-1980s Britain, dub reggae melded with post-punk in eerie laments of a disunited kingdom, beleaguered by economic decline and interracial strife.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
He saw a simple, sincere face that was incapable of subtlety or guile, an honest, frank face with disunited large eyes, rusty hair, black eyebrows and an unfortunate reddish- brown mustache.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
And at the worst, what was decay to him, who could recall the disuniting atoms under the restored law of imperial life?
From Miracles of Our Lord by MacDonald, George
Oh, we're not tired of fighting yet, Nor ripe for disuniting yet!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Recom. concerning the disuniting of the paroch of Abirchirdar, Ib.
From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly
Congress, impressed with the belief that the proposals of the Commissioners, instead of disuniting the people, would have a contrary effect, ordered them to be speedily published in the several American newspapers.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Ryerson, Egerton
But the barbarity of my fate soon saved her the task of disuniting us.
From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by Cleland, John
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