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disunite

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dis·u·nite  (dsy-nt)
tr. & intr.v. dis·u·nit·ed, dis·u·nit·ing, dis·u·nites
To separate or become separate.

disunite
Verb
[-niting, -nited] to cause disagreement among
disunion n
disunity n
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Verb1.disunite - part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
break up, part, split, split up, separate, break - discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
2.disunite - force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut up - separate into isolated compartments or categories; "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!"
polarise, polarize - cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions
keep apart, sequestrate, set apart, isolate, sequester - set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
disjoin, disjoint - make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of
disarticulate, disjoint - separate at the joints; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it"
disconnect - make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten
cut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"
tear - to separate or be separated by force; "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars"
joint - separate (meat) at the joint
gin - separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
break - separate from a clinch, in boxing; "The referee broke the boxers"
sever, break up - set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"
rupture, tear, snap, bust - separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"
move, displace - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"

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In American culture this gulf has to do partly with old grievances which disunite graying sons and daughters of the sixties who for whatever reason did not serve or did not approve of service and their coevals who did.
They did so, the approving father notes, "for fear of the noueries de l'aiguillettes which are commonly practiced in this part of Poitou to disunite husbands and wives.
did indeed do], he couldn't get no job, you know, 'cause people were saying he would disunite the offices of the insurance company called Prudential if he went into it.
 
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