disunite
verbUK /dɪsjuːˈnaɪt/
Etymology From dis- + unite.
1
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
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
To disintegrate; to come apart.
- You cannot bind me more to you, my lord. Farewell till we renew... I trust, renew A converse ne'er to disunite again.1843, Robert Browning, A Blot In The 'Scutcheon, act I:
- Derived terms
- disunitable, disuniter
- Related terms
- deunionize, disunity