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
For it is easier to disunite what is connected than to connect what is disjointedly strung together.
From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
"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
She added: "The public didn’t trust us for a whole bunch of reasons - not keeping promises but also looking disunited."
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 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
These intellectual and professional Negroes couldn’t use what they knew for the benefit of their own black kind simply because even among themselves they were disunited.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Valancourt yielded to these remonstrances, and her affecting entreaties drew from him a promise, that, however Montoni might persist in his design of disuniting them, he would not seek to redress his wrongs by violence.
From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
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 Albert Venn Dicey
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 Egerton Ryerson
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
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
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