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
And now I say thrice happy they That call on Hymen to requite 'em; For, though love cools, the wedded fools Must cleave till death doth disunite 'em.
From Echoes from the Sabine Farm by Roswell Martin Field
"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
Why may she not be induced to give up the hope of disuniting us, and, while she hates me, continue her affection for thee?
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
Bonaparte's design of disuniting Austria from England and treating separately with the emperor was foiled; he could not reject the emperor's proposal, for France was eager for peace.
From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Reginald Lane Poole
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
Indra of a hundred sacrifices, assuming the form of a Brahmana, repaired to the capital of the king and meeting all the children succeeded in disuniting the princes.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Ah! certainly, an ingenious plan for disuniting us.
From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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