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third-person singular simple present disunites, present participle disuniting, simple past and past participle disunited
(transitive) To cause disagreement or alienation among or within. quotations examples
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
(transitive) To separate, sever, or split. quotations examples
I have discovered how to disunite that force and that particle.
1899, Robert Barr, chapter 16, in Jennie Baxter, Journalist
(intransitive) To disintegrate; to come apart. quotations examples
You cannot bind me more to you, my lord.Farewell till we renew... I trust, renewA converse ne'er to disunite again.
1843, Robert Browning, A Blot In The 'Scutcheon, act I