disunite Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb part; cease or break association with
    dissociate; divorce; disjoint; disassociate.
    • She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president
  2. verb force, take, or pull apart
    part; divide; separate.
    • He separated the fighting children
    • Moses parted the Red Sea

WordNet


Dis`u*nite" transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Disunited; present participle & verbal noun Disuniting
Definitions
  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! Milton.
Dis`u*nite" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To part; to fall asunder; to become separated.
    The joints of the body politic do separate and disunite. South.

Webster 1913