disestablish
verb (used with object)
to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
have disestablished
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present perfectof disestablish.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Lysenko and his followers at the Soviet's All-Union Institute of Selection & Genetics claim to have disestablished tomatoes, potatoes, wheat and barley.
From Time Magazine Archive
If, now, we further manage to refute the inference which leads them to assume the Pradhâna as the cause of the—world, we shall have disestablished their whole theory.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by George Thibaut
“I hope he won’t think I have disestablished him again!”
From Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert
