disunite

Etymology

dis- + unite

verb

  1. (transitive) To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
    If they cannot disunite them by domestic broils, then they engage their neighbours against them. 1516, Sir Thomas More, “Of Their Military Discipline”, in Utopia
    Secrets disunite a family. 1863, Charles Reade, chapter 44, in Hard Cash
  2. (transitive) To separate, sever, or split.
    I have discovered how to disunite that force and that particle. 1899, Robert Barr, chapter 16, in Jennie Baxter, Journalist
  3. (intransitive) To disintegrate; to come apart.
    You cannot bind me more to you, my lord. Farewell till we renew... I trust, renew 1843, Robert Browning, A Blot In The 'Scutcheon, act I

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