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
Moscow dismissed it as an attempt "to disunite the Arab countries."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The situation and character of Vetranio admitted of milder measures; and the policy of the Eastern emperor was directed to disunite his antagonists, and to separate the forces of Illyricum from the cause of rebellion.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Milman, Henry Hart
"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
"Let us prove these extremists wrong, and show that even when we disagree we will never be disunited from our common values of decency and respect."
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2024
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
They were like Milo’s disunited eyes, which never looked at the same thing at the same time.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
It is not, at any rate as it has hitherto been applied, a plan for disuniting the parts of a united state.
From England's Case Against Home Rule by Dicey, Albert Venn
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 Grattan, Thomas Colley
It was no time for scaring and disuniting the mass of the people when the united energies of England might soon hardly suffice to withstand the onset of Spain.
From History of the English People, Volume IV by Green, John Richard
No argument was needed as to the obligation of uniting sacred and secular learning, because the idea of disuniting them never was entertained.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
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 Williams, Henry Smith
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