The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disband \Dis*band"\ (?; see Dis-), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disbanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Disbanding.] [Pref. dis- + band: cf. OF. desbander, F. d['e]bander, to unbind, unbend. See Band, and cf. Disbend, Disbind.]
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To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army.
They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling.
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To divorce. [Obs.]
And therefore . . . she ought to be disbanded.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: disband)
Usage examples of "disbanded".
The severe fine, awarded to the restaurant, depleted the group's treasury and effectively disbanded them.
Otherwise I might have been disbanded myself, and I was not eager for that to happen.
To it other sparks, or embers, returned, gratefully: the tired lives of disbanded individuals, heavy with their burdens of experience and the rigors of separate existence.
No doubt it consumed the substance of Bands the way the water monster did, assimilating the disbanded substance into itself while utilizing the magnetic reserves to enhance its own energy.
This took some practice, and one trainee disbanded, but in due course the mock cadre of Monsters was ready.
Most of his party had been disbanded, not by the power of the explosion, but by the sheer malignance that alien attack evinced.
The liability of his effort was in the nature of the Bands: they disbanded too readily at the mere suggestion of violence, then lost discipline when finally worked up to some semblance of combat fervor.
If Rondl failed, possibly getting disbanded himself, she would wait safely until recalled to her human host, then make her report.
He was fortunate, ironically, that Tangt's grief for her disbanded husband had prevented her from checking on the location of the Ancient Site.
I cannot take up the trade of a footpad, though disbanded soldiers turned robbers are common enough in Spain.
Most of them are disbanded soldiers or deserters, and I should say that four of them are more than a match for your six servants.
The infantry also, seeing now no hope of receiving their arrears of pay, disbanded in large numbers, and after an unsuccessful attempt to carry Paris by a night attack, the king fell back with the remnant of his force.
Here the greater part of the fleet was disbanded, the Rainbow and a few other vessels sailing up to Greenwich, where the captains and officers were received with great honour by the queen, and were feasted and made much of by the city.
If Hrruna was First Speaker and the most important man on Hrruba, what in hell was he doing walking into the disputed, discredited, all but disbanded colony?
She remembered the day they'd disbanded - not to quit watching Carin Coldae films, of course, but because the club itself bored them stiff They'd gone back to climbing in the nearby hills, where they could pretend that villains were hiding behind the rocks.