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
These stimuli of unusual energy or novelty not only disunite our common trains of ideas, but the trains of muscular motions also, which have not been long established by habit, and disturb those that have.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
"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
"Celtic disunited are not the Celtic that people should be aware of," he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
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
We are told by the critics of the Gladstonian scheme that federalism is not "a plan for disuniting the parts of a united state."
From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Godkin, Edwin Lawrence
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 Radcliffe, Ann Ward
Oh, we're not tired of fighting yet, Nor ripe for disuniting yet!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Her heart drooped as she revolved the necessity of disuniting their fates; but that this disunion was proper could not admit of doubt.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
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