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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disunite.

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  • adjective having been divided; having the unity destroyed

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Examples

  • Dr Mahathir's continued efforts at whipping up fear amongst Malays has now been taken up by some other Umno leaders, including former party secretary-general recently as saying that all the hard-fought privileges accrued by the Malays over the years would soon be lost if they are to be "disunited".

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

  • He denied Labour was "disunited" and blamed the media for stirring up dissent but added the party had to be more honest about past mistakes.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2008

  • What can we say about the spiritual state of the dissociated and disunited mind of other cultures?

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Is the Ethiopian political opposition "weak and disunited"?

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: Out of Touch in the Horn of Africa? Alemayehu G. Mariam 2011

  • Is the Ethiopian political opposition "weak and disunited"?

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: Out of Touch in the Horn of Africa? Alemayehu G. Mariam 2011

  • And if that student of philosophy, politics and economics David Cameron had boned up on European history, he would have learned the truth of Sir Humphrey's observation in Yes Minister: "Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years – to create a disunited Europe."

    Unthinkable? Ministers to take historical advice | Editorial 2011

  • Italy celebrated its sesquicentennial as a nation in March and yet it can still seem as factional and disunited as it did during the years of reunification, the years of Tomasi's work.

    A Lyric, Elegiac Lament for a Lost World Willard Spiegelman 2011

  • Under such circumstances, is it any wonder that the Ethiopian opposition is weak and disunited?

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: Out of Touch in the Horn of Africa? Alemayehu G. Mariam 2011

  • It makes sense to talk about the rise of India and China, but Asia is too diverse with too many cultures, nations and religions — and it is too disunited.

    The Next Battleground Gurcharan Das 2010

  • In a single sentence, out of the blue, the partners ganged up and whipsawed the entire Ethiopian opposition: "The Ethiopian political opposition is weak, disunited, and out of touch with the average Ethiopian, partners agreed."

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: Out of Touch in the Horn of Africa? Alemayehu G. Mariam 2011

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