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
"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
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
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 Henry Hart Milman
"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
It took the Romans about 45 years to take over most of England and Wales after they invaded in AD 43, arriving in a disunited land dominated by tribal leaders.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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
Though politically disunited, the Greeks, who began to refer to themselves as Hellenes after the mythical king Hellen, did share a common language and religion.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 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
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
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
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
Ah! certainly, an ingenious plan for disuniting us.
From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
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