disunite

From dis- +‎ unite.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsjuːˈnaɪt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪt

disunite (third-person singular simple present disunites, present participle disuniting, simple past and past participle disunited)

1. (transitive) To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
   • 1516, Sir Thomas More, “Of Their Military Discipline”, in Utopia:

     If they cannot disunite them by domestic broils, then they engage their neighbours against them.

   • 1863, Charles Reade, chapter 44, in Hard Cash:

     Secrets disunite a family.

2. (transitive) To separate, sever, or split.
   • 1899, Robert Barr, chapter 16, in Jennie Baxter, Journalist:

     I have discovered how to disunite that force and that particle.

3. (intransitive) To disintegrate; to come apart.
   • 1843, Robert Browning, A Blot In The 'Scutcheon, act I:

     You cannot bind me more to you, my lord.
     Farewell till we renew... I trust, renew
     A converse ne'er to disunite again.

• disunity

• nudities, unitised, untidies

disunite f pl

1. feminine plural of disunito

disunite f pl

1. feminine plural of disunito

disunite

1. inflection of disunire:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

• induiste