unjoin
Americanverb
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to leave or withdraw from (a meeting, club, or other group).
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to separate or disconnect from a joined state.
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Now the king ascends a gangplank of raw timbers that leads from the platform up to the top of the arch whose unjoined piers tower over crown and wharves and river.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is now generally recognised that much time and effort have been wasted in teaching children to join letters which are easier to read unjoined.
From The Child under Eight by Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach)
Of course the lines are here left unjoined for the purpose of clearness.
From Amusements in Mathematics by Dudeney, Henry Ernest
Though Hertz caught the etheric waves on a wire hoop and saw the answering sparks jump across the unjoined ends, there was no way to record the flashes and so read the message.
From Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers by Doubleday, Russell
When paint instead of incision or relief came to be the decorative agent, the lines or bands would be left unjoined in imitation.
From A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522 by Cushing, Frank Hamilton
I stay quiet even though I want to ask if there is a possibility of unjoining the team.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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