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Disunite

Definition: Disunite

Disunite

Verb

1. Part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president".

2. Force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "disunite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)


Synonyms: Disunite

Synonyms: disassociate (v), disjoint (v), dissociate (v), divide (v), divorce (v), part (v), separate (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Disunite

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discord

Split; break with, break squares with, part company with; declare war, try conclusions; join issue, put in issue; pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel on; sow dissension, stir up dissension; Noun: embroil, entangle, disunite, widen the breach; set at odds, set together by the ears; set against, pit against.

Disjunction

Disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair; divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock; (fix), unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free; (liberate).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Disunite

English words defined with "disunite": Disannex, Discerp, Discerptive, Dislink, Disuniting. (references)
Etymologies containing "disunite": Dislink. (references)

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Modern Translation: Disunite

Language Translations for "disunite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

veçoj (abstract, disentangle, disjoin, disjoint, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, divide, divorce, individualize, insulate, isolate, keep separate, partition, pick out, seclude, segregate, separate), veçohem, shkëputem (break loose, secede, separate, turn out), shkëput (abstract, detach, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, distract, extract, rip off, tear, tear off, tear up, uncouple, unfix, unhook, unstrap), prish unitetin, përçaj (disrupt, divide, tear), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, divide, divorce, divvy, fissure, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow), ndahem (be divided, bust up, fall into, farewell, secede, split up). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فكك (break up, disassemble, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, dissociate, take apart, take to pieces, tear down), ‏فك (break up, chap, detach, disassemble, disconnect, disengage, disentangle, disjoint, dismantle, dissociate, free, jaw, jaws, jowl, loose, loosening, mandible, release, separate, set free, take apart, take to pieces, undo, unfasten, unfix, untangle, untie, untying, unwind), ‏فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, divide, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), ‏فرق (allot, apportion, be afraid, be scared, become afraid, deal out, difference, differentiate, diffuse, discrepancy, disperse, distinction, distribute, divide, give out, parcel out, part, scatter, section, separate, strew about, variance), ‏بعثر (disarrange, disturb, litter, rummage, scatter, shatter). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разделям (break up, come between, disconnect, dispart, dissever, divide, divorce, divvy, lot, parcel out, part, partition, plot, portion, segment, segregate, separate, sever, share, slice, split, split up, sunder, uncouple, unjoin, win away), отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke). (various references)

   

Czech

  

rozpoltit (tear). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نفاق انداختن , جداکردن (Abrupt, Abstract, Amputate, Analyze, Calve, Chop, Cleave, Cutoff, Detach, Disconnect, Dissociate, Divide, Drawoff, Insulate, Intercept, Part, Partition, Rive, Rupture, Select, Separate, Sequester, Sever, Try, Uncouple, Unlink, Untwist, Unzip), باهم بیگانه کردن . (various references)

   

French

  

désunir. (various references)

   

German

  

spalten (chinks, chop, cleave, clefts, colons, columns, crack, crevices, decompose, fissures, partition, Rive, slot, splinter, split, to chop, to decompose), entzweien (disintegrate, divide, separate). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χωρίζω (dissociate oneself from, divide, divorce, part, separate, separate from, sequester, sever, split, split up, stratify, sunder), διαιρώ (divide, divide among / between, split). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szétválaszt (differentiate, disconnect, disjoin, dispart, disrupt, dissociate, to disassociate, to disengage, to disrupt, to dissever, to dissociate, to divide, to divorce, to part, to partition, to pull asunder, to separate, to sort, to uncouple, uncouple, unstick). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

memecah belah. (various references)

   

Italian

  

disunire (disjoin). (various references)

   

Manx

  

scarrey (alienate, alienation, break away, break off, break up, come away, detach, detachment; spread, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjunction, dissociate, dissociation, distinguish, disunion, diverge, divergence, divide, divorce, draw apart; spacing, insulation, leaving, part, part with, parting, relinquish, schism, secede, secession, segment, segregate, segregation, separate, separating, separation, sever, severance, shut off, slough, split up, start, sunder), cur mee-unnaneys er. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isuniteday

   

Portuguese

  

desunir (disassemble, disconnect, disjoin, dissociate, divide, divvy, separate, sever, uncouple), separar (branch, break, buddle, calve, detach, disassemble, disband, disconnect, discriminate, disembody, disengage, disestablish, disintegrate, disjoin, dispart, dissever, dissociate, divide, divvy, insulate, island, isolate, keep apart, outbreak, part, seclude, segregate, separate, sever, sort, sort out, sunder, uncouple, unleash, unlink, wean). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

dezuni (divide, split), dezbina (disconnect, disjoin, divide, separate, set at odds, sever, split), despãrţi (abstract, bar, cleave, detach, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, dispart, distinguish, divide, divorce, partition, scatter, segregate, select, separate, sever, unyoke), separa (chop off, cleave, cut out, detach, disconnect, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissociate, divide, isolate, partition, seclude, segregate, separate, sever, sunder), se separa (dissever, divaricate, divorce, secede, separate, shut off), se despãrţi (dispart, dissever, divorce, part, part company, segregate, sever). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

разделять (demarcate, dispart, divide, part, partake, participate, partition, separates, share in, splits). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

razjediniti (disincorporate, dissever, divide, tear, unjoin). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desunir (disengage). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

upplösas (decompose, disband, dissolve), upplösa (break up, decompose, disband, disintegrate, dismiss, disorganize, dissociate, dissolve, sissolve, wind up), splittras (fragment, shatter), splittra (cleave, divide, fragment, fritter, Rive, shatter, shiver, splinter), skiljas (divorce, get a divorce, get divorced, part, part company, sever), skilja (differentiate, disconnect, disjoin, distinguish, divide, divorce, part, separate, set apart, sever). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bozuşmak (disagree, divide, fall out, fall out with, quarrel with), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow), aralarını açmak (alienate, create a rift, make bad blood, set at variable), ara bozmak (create a rift, embroil, make mischief, set at odds). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

роз'"днуватися (disjoin), роз'"днувати (come apart, detach, disarticulate, disassociate, disconnect, disjoin, dissociate, sejoin, sever, unyoke), відокремлюватися (dissever, dissociate, secede, segregate, separate, single). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Disunite

Derivations

Words beginning with "disunite": disunited, disunites. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Disunite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dysynni. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Disunite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nudities, untidies.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-n-s-t-u"

-1 letter: dunites, indites, tineids, unities.

-2 letters: dunite, duties, indies, indite, indues, inside, nudest, nudies, nudist, seniti, suited, teiids, teinds, tenuis, tidies, tineid, undies, united, unites, untied, unties.

-3 letters: deist, dents, diets, dines, dints, dites, duets, duits, dunes, dunts, edits, etuis, indie, indue, inset, intis, neist, nides, nidus, nisei, nites, nitid, nudes, nudie, senti, sited.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-n-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: cutinised, distingue, disunited, disunites, finitudes, untidiest, unvisited.

 

+2 letters: disunities, eruditions, industries, insinuated, instituted, neuritides, punditries, seminudity, subediting, toluidines, untidiness.

 

+3 letters: antisuicide, definitudes, destitution, diminutives, discontinue, disjunctive, disquieting, dissentious, equidistant, fecundities, inaptitudes, ineptitudes, infinitudes, inquietudes, jocundities, mediastinum, mundanities, rotundities, scrutinised, scrutinized, unjustified, unkindliest, unsatisfied, unsolicited, unwieldiest.

 

+4 letters: adventitious, attitudinise, deglutitions, destitutions, discontinued, discontinues, disguisement, disjunctives, educationist, elucidations, extinguished, incertitudes, indisputable, individuates, ingratitudes, interdiffuse, miseducating, miseducation, mountainside, orotundities, outdesigning, profundities, reductionism, reductionist, reinstituted, repudiations, seminudities, undigestible, unsensitized, unsterilized, unstratified, untidinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Disunite


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 73 75 6E 69 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    ..-    -.    ..    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110011 01110101 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#117 &#110 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0075 006E 0069 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3875858780758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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