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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disband \Dis*band"\, v. i. To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization. When both rocks and all things shall disband. --Herbert. Human society would in a short space disband. ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Disband was an all-female performance group in New York City from 1978–1982. Modeled after a rock band, the members were artists rather than musicians. The band's sound was a type of a cappella No Wave . Disband performed mostly at art venues like Franklin ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Yeltsin disbanded the Soviet Interior Ministry. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At the hearing, nearly all dischargers on the advisory committee favored disbanding the program. ▪ But moments later the Knesset voted not to disband ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To break up or cause to cease to exist. 2 (context obsolete English) To loose the bands of; to set free. 3 (context obsolete English) To divorce.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. cause to break up or function; "the principal disbanded the political student organization" stop functioning or cohering as a unit; "The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting" [syn: dissolve ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Middle French desbander (Modern French débander ), in military sense, from des- (see dis- ) + band (v.). Related: Disbanded ; disbanding .

Usage examples of disband.

Both Federalists and Republicans in Congress, seeing no reason why Adams should get the credit, voted to disband the army by summer.

Had Hamilton been given free reign with the army, Adams would remark, it would have required a second army to disband the first one.

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The Perthshire, Clackmannanshire, and Kinross-shire Yeomanries were also disbanded at this time.

Space Patrol is being disbanded as of now until such time as another threat to the galaxy brings us forth to scour the evildoer from the stars and the space between the stars.

The rest of the Fanti forces had been disbanded, as being utterly useless for fighting purposes, and had been turned into carriers.

Mahratta troops were disbanded: and a British contingent, consisting of seven regiments of infantry and two of cavalry, was to be maintained in the country at the cost of the Gwalior government, which government was also to pay forthwith the expenses of the campaign.

I was kidnapped while a guest of an illegal colony here, founded by the disbanded Occitan Legion.

Rome early in December, Metellus Pius finally crossed the Alps into Italian Gaul with his army, which he proceeded to disband before settling its troops in the wide rich lands to the north of the Padus River.

When finally he was released it was because the Pompeian broom was so imminent that the settlement had no alternative than to disband.

Light Car Patrols, which did such a splendid job against the Senussi, are being disbanded, and nobody in the military gives a curse about maintaining the desert roads.

Mecser, after the fall of the Dual Monarchy and the disbanding of the Army, reported to duty at the counter revolutionary nationalist government formed at Szeged and participated in the reorganization of the national army.

But when the Akkadians conquered, the Children of Yisra-el were dispersed and flung to the winds, their Twelve Tribes disbanded, Ten of the Twelve lost and the purity of their mother-tongue diffused.

He was feeling anger, bitter anger, that his men, who had fought for those flags, who had suffered, whose comrades were in unmarked graves on a dozen battlefields would be broken up, disbanded.

XIV Thus speaking, the trooped apparitions Began to disband And resolve them in two: Those whose record was lovely and true Bore to northward for home: those of bitter traditions Again left the land, XV And, towering to seaward in legions, They paused at a spot Overbending the Race - That engulphing, ghast, sinister place - Whither headlong they plunged, to the fathomless regions Of myriads forgot.