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
"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
Moscow dismissed it as an attempt "to disunite the Arab countries."
From Time Magazine Archive
The pamphlet was stigmatized as libellous and seditious, and the writer as attempting to disunite the two nations.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Temple Scott
"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
Some links of the catenations of motions may be left out without disuniting the chain.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
If all the molecules of the ring of vapor continued to condense without disuniting, they would at length form a ring either solid or fluid.
From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Henry Smith Williams
The vast emptiness which surrounds the universe, was not filled with things seen, with sun or moon or stars; it stretched boundless, penetrating everywhere, disuniting everything, body from body, particle from particle.
From Best Russian Short Stories by Thomas Seltzer
And, in fact, the emperor, as the only means of disuniting his two powerful vassals, felt himself obliged to cede Valenciennes and the islands of Zealand to Baldwin.
From Holland The History of the Netherlands by Thomas Colley Grattan
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 George MacDonald
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