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UK
/dɪsjuːnˈaɪt/
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VERB
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force, take, or pull apart
He separated the fighting children
Moses parted the Red Sea -
part; cease or break association with
She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president
How To Use disunite In A Sentence
- Listen to our astronomers talk about the magnitudes and disunites and composition of the stars, and compare with their story that which was written in the astronomy of a few centuries ago. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index
- 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
- As to individuals, other methods were employed with them, in order so thoroughly to disunite every party, and even every family, that _no concert_, _order_, _or effect_, _might appear in any future opposition_. Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc.
- They are weak, petulant, hypocritical, disunited, duplicitous, sometimes anti-Semitic, and often anti-American appeasers.
- Whereas having many friends puts people apart and severs and disunites them, by transferring and shifting the tie of friendship too frequently, and does not admit of a mixture and welding of goodwill by the diffusing and compacting of intimacy. Plutarch's Morals
- Is the Ethiopian political opposition "weak and disunited"? Alemayehu G. Mariam: Out of Touch in the Horn of Africa?
- Then the sons of nobles scattered in four directions, disunited, in search of land.
- Isana: For your information, DPM, what 'disunites' (the proper term is 'awakened') the Brudirect News1
- By truth, now an avenging flame, the very soul is melted like metal in a furnace; it dissolves all, but destroys nothing; it disunites the first elements of life, yet the sufferer can never die. Classic French Course in English
- All Mr. Lane's efforts have been to disunite us," she confided to a friend, referring to her relations with Bronson. Utopia, With Tears