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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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 Russell Doubleday
Of course the lines are here left unjoined for the purpose of clearness.
From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
These unjoined walls leave a doorway which is thus flanked on each side by stone masonry, recalling in every particular the well-known walls of cliff houses.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
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 E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray
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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