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Disunite   Listen
verb
Disunite  v. t.  (past & past part. disunited; pres. part. disuniting)  
1.
To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.
2.
To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of. "Go on both in hand, O nations, never be disunited, be the praise... of all posterity!"



Disunite  v. i.  To part; to fall asunder; to become separated. "The joints of the body politic do separate and disunite."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Disunite" Quotes from Famous Books



... incision. dissection anatomy; decomposition &c. 49; cutting instrument &c (sharpness) 253; buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw. separatist. V. be disjoined &c.; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose. disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair[obs3]; divorce, part, dispart[obs3], detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate,, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock &c. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... consequence of hindering us from it? The slaves of Virginia would rise in value, and we would be obliged to go to your markets." I need not expatiate on this subject. Great as the evil is, a dismemberment of the union would be worse. If those states should disunite from the other states, for not indulging them in the temporary continuance of this traffic, they might solicit and obtain aid ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various

... Minister) that I should love much better to have my Holland quite alone. I should be then a hundred times happier.... When I am exerting myself to make a whole of this country, a party, which in collusion with the foreigner never ceases to gain ground, is working to disunite it. Besides the allies have not given me this kingdom to submit it to every kind of influence. This situation ...
— History of Holland • George Edmundson

... thy madness, thus to disunite Ethereal minds, and mix all heaven in fight? What wonder this, when in thy frantic mood Thou drovest a mortal to insult a god? Thy impious hand Tydides' javelin bore, And madly ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer



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