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disunite
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Word definitions for disunite in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s (implied in disunited ); see dis- + unite . Related: Disuniting .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" [syn: disassociate , dissociate , divorce , disjoint ] force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disunite \Dis`u*nite"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disunited ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disuniting .] To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter. To alienate in spirit; to break the concord ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause disagreement or alienation among or within. 2 (context transitive English) To separate, sever, or split. 3 (context intransitive English) To disintegrate; to come apart.
Usage examples of disunite.
They employed emissaries to allay the ferment among the Cameronians, and disunite them from the cavaliers, by canting, praying, and demonstrating the absurdity, sinfulness, and danger of such a coalition.
The reality, or the suspicion, of a conspiracy disarmed and disunited the Italians.
Have you forgotten that when disunited Castruccio, a low citizen of Lucca, subdued her?
He saw a simple, sincere face that was incapable of subtlety or guile, an honest, frank face with disunited large eyes, rusty hair, black eyebrows and an unfortunate reddish-brown mustache.
They were like Milo's disunited eyes, which never looked at the same thing at the same time.
Milo had posed for these pictures in a drab peasant's blouse with a high collar, and his scrupulous, paternal countenance was tolerant, wise, critical and strong as he stared out at the populace omnisciently with his undisciplined mustache and disunited eyes.
And whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as Pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the Florentines.
And what ever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as Pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the Florentines.
He waved too, encompassing the rival groups at the train station and, by extension, all the disunited groups in a most disunited state.
Franklin had said about our being a scattered and disunited household, my mind was led naturally to Mr.
The reality, or the suspicion, of a conspiracy disarmed and disunited the Italians.
Also, Pa-Kur was not so much a fool as to bring the tributary Home Stones to his camp and risk disuniting his horde before the siege was completed.
But the barbarity of my fate soon sav'd her the task of disuniting us.
What indomitable resolution need be apprehended from the people whom so many and such recent enmities have disunited?
They may prefer the American voice that reflects our normal, two-party political wrangling and discord, so that they may suspect we are disunited.