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Disband   /dɪsbˈænd/   Listen
verb
Disband  v. t.  (past & past part. disbanded; pres. part. disbanding)  
1.
To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army. "They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling."
2.
To divorce. (Obs.) "And therefore... she ought to be disbanded."


Disband  v. i.  To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization. "When both rocks and all things shall disband." "Human society would in a short space disband."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Disband" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hasey, proprietor of a chateau near Gaillon. Du Hasey was aide-de-camp to Guerin de Bruslard, the famous Chouan whom Frotte had designated as his successor to the command of the royal army, and who had only had to disband it. This reunion, which is often mentioned in the reports, by the nature and quality of the guests, was more important than ...
— The House of the Combrays • G. le Notre
... cavalcade moved on down the street, workmen gathered on street corners and in upper rooms and discussed the situation. The strike had got beyond their control. Many of them were for sending a delegation to the I.W.W. camp demanding that they disband and leave. Others were silent, and still others voted loudly to "fight to ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert
... must cease to exist. Hyde dealt skilfully with the problem in his speech to Parliament on the eve of the adjournment on September 13th. The King, he said, did not resent the common belief that he would not disband the army. ...
— The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon V2 • Henry Craik
... Claude Latour Seigneur of Montchateau, master of the high justice, the middle and the low, could gain their favor. They must needs hold a council and put their two hundred thick heads together, and then there comes this fellow Aylward and another, as their spokesmen, to say that they will disband unless an Englishman of good name be set over them. There are many of them, as I understand, who come from some great forest which lies in Hampi, or Hampti—I cannot lay my tongue to the name. Your dwelling is ...
— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle
... Overstep the dark river, thou terrible tower, and get thee up into the country ten miles. And thou black southern prison, move along the dusky road to Versailles; there Frown on the gardens—and, if it obey and depart, then the King will disband This war-breathing army; but, if it refuse, let the Nation's Assembly thence learn That this army of terrors, that prison of horrors, are the bands ...
— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry


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