disunite

American  

[dis-yoo-nahyt] / ˌdɪs juˈnaɪt /

verb (used with object)

disunited, disuniting

1. to sever the union of; separate; disjoin.

2. to set at variance; alienate.

   The issue disunited the party members.

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verb (used without object)

disunited, disuniting

1. to part; fall apart.

disunite British  

/ ˌdɪsjʊˈnaɪt /

verb

1. to separate or become separate; disrupt

2. (tr) to set at variance; estrange

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Other Word Forms

• disunion
  noun
• disuniter
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of disunite

First recorded in 1550–60; dis- ¹ + unite ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

disunite disunited disuniting

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

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

May the sister republics of France and America be as incorporate as light and heat, and the man who endeavours to disunite them be viewed as the Arnold of his country. 7th.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

"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

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

But then, on the other hand, as a counterbalance to these disuniting elements, there was in Dante's Italy, as in Greece, a much greater uniformity of religion common to all than amongst the northern nations.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

On disuniting the iron helix, the magnet caused with the copper helix alone still stronger deflection in the same direction.

From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

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 John Richard Green

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