Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To separate or become separate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a horse, in galloping, to move the left hind leg immediately after the right fore leg, or vice versa.
- To separate; disjoin; part: as, to
disunite particles of matter. - To set at variance; alienate.
- To part; fall asunder; become divided.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To part; to fall asunder; to become separated.
- transitive verb To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate.
- transitive verb To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To cause
disagreement oralienation among or within. - verb transitive To
separate ,sever , orsplit . - verb intransitive To
disintegrate ; to comeapart .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb force, take, or pull apart
- verb part; cease or break association with
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Examples
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"All Mr. Lane's efforts have been to disunite us," she confided to a friend, referring to her relations with Bronson.
Utopia, With Tears Alexandra Mullen 2010
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Citizens of the world, disunite ... you have nothing to lose but your fake ID's and anarchist teen fantasies.
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Thus did the Bush administration disunite its nation and forfeit its mandate.
READING BETWEEN THE LINES News from Mad Plato 2008
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Since first being elected to the House of Commons in 1968, at a time of great national unity, I have never witnessed a Canadian prime minister consciously decide to disunite the nation.
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Since first being elected to the House of Commons in 1968, at a time of great national unity, I have never witnessed a Canadian prime minister consciously decide to disunite the nation.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Thus did the Bush administration disunite its nation and forfeit its mandate.
Archive 2008-12-01 News from Mad Plato 2008
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There was a real conspiracy against identity and family, to disunite black people so they wouldn't rise up.
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We also disunite the world industrial leaders in the issue at Kyoto.
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There is no danger if we hold together; the danger is in disunion, and they want to disunite us.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Ibrahim al-Shammari told Al Jazeera on Thursday that the Islamic Army in Iraq had decided to disunite from al-Qaeda in Iraq after its members were threatened.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iraqi group 'splits' from al-Qaeda 2007
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