to disunite
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7.0
- verb
- /ˌdɪsjuˈnaɪt/
:
desunir
- The argument over the policy changes threatened to disunite the once-harmonious team.
Examples
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The EC, which took the lead, saw the crisis as an opportunity to demonstrate to the world (not least the United States) in the wake of its own hesitant, disunited performance during the Gulf War that the Community was capable of conducting a coherent foreign and security policy.
Academic text (1993) -
The Founders feared a "disunited America," but as between the states and the new federal government, they plainly favored the states.
Academic text (2000) -
In the face of these challenges, the other great powers were disunited and in disarray.
Academic text (1995) -
This line of argument can also be found in some scholarship that refutes the view of the southern home front as disunited.
Academic text (2018) -
"A disunited church, squabbling and criticizing, makes it very hard for the world to believe."
Blog text (16) -
And if the states were wholly disunited, or only united in partial confederacies, they would have frequent and violent contests with each other.
Academic text (1993) -
On one level, therefore, Arab peoples may be perceived as having deep social and class distinctions and as being disunited and politically fragmented, transnationally and within national borders.
Academic text (2000) -
While the Arabs were, and remained, generally disunited (beyond agreement to dislodge the Jews), the Yishuv was single-minded in its Zionist goal.
Academic text (2002) -
Political disagreements can often disunite communities that were previously united.
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His decision to leave the project will likely disunite the group and lead to a lack of direction.
Synonyms
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1.1
To split something into parts or groups
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1.9
To break into parts or pieces
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3.4
Make a group of people leave or spread out
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4.6
To separate yourself completely from someone or something
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5.8
Fall apart into smaller pieces or stop working together
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3.0
To separate into pieces, for example a machine or a group
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5.3
To disconnect two things that are joined, often machine parts
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6.7
Disconnect parts that were joined so they work independently
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7.4
Separate things that are attached to each other
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9.9
To cut or separate something into parts, often by breaking it
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7.9
To make a group that was together become divided
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8.0
To separate a company into independent businesses
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8.7
To make a group or organization split into smaller groups that disagree
To divide something into separate parts
Antonyms
How United
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3.7
∞
2.1
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7.0
680
1.1
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1.3
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3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word disunite comes from the prefix dis- meaning 'apart' or 'not' and the word unite meaning 'to make one'. So, to disunite is to pull people or things 'apart' or stop them being 'together'.