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Disunite

verb
(past & past part. disunited; pres. part. disuniting)
1.
Part; cease or break association with.  Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, divorce.
2.
Force, take, or pull apart.  Synonyms: divide, part, separate.  "Moses parted the Red Sea"






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"Disunite" Quotes from Famous Books



... sort struck with its attraction. The body has a great share in our being, has an eminent place there, and therefore its structure and composition are of very just consideration. They who go about to disunite and separate our two principal parts from one another are to blame; we must, on the contrary, reunite and rejoin them. We must command the soul not to withdraw and entertain itself apart, not to despise and abandon the body (neither can she do it but by some apish counterfeit), ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... the Bill—a term true in so far only as it denoted the intention to create a separate legislature, but false and calumnious when used in the sense in which it was intended to be understood—of imputing to the promoters of the Bill the intention to disunite or in any way to disintegrate the Empire. Indeed, the very object of the measure was, by relaxing a little the legal bonds of union, to draw closer the actual ties between England and Ireland, in fact, to do as we have done in our Colonies, by decentralizing the subordinate ...
— Handbook of Home Rule (1887) • W. E. Gladstone et al.

... suffer. But if Athens comes victorious out of this contest, she has it in her to become the first city of Greece. Your vote is to decide whether we are to join battle or not. If we do not bring on a battle presently, some factious intrigue will disunite the Athenians, and the city will be betrayed to the Medes. But if we fight, before there is anything rotten in the state of Athens, I believe that, provided the Gods will give fair play and no favour, ...
— The Fifteen Decisive Battles of The World From Marathon to Waterloo • Sir Edward Creasy, M.A.



Words linked to "Disunite" :   split, sequester, disconnect, bust, move, rupture, joint, cut up, disassociate, break, keep apart, gin, tear, part, disunion, disjoin, disarticulate, set apart, sequestrate, cut, snap, compartmentalise, polarise, sever, isolate, break up, separate, compartmentalize, polarize, split up, displace



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