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Disband

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse. ambitransitive

    "The president wanted to disband the scandal-plagued agency."

  2. 2
    stop functioning or cohering as a unit wordnet
  3. 3
    To loose the bands of; to set free. obsolete, transitive
  4. 4
    cause to break up or cease to function wordnet
  5. 5
    To divorce. obsolete, transitive

    "And therefore […] she ought to be disbanded."

Etymology

Attested since the 1590s, from Middle French desbander (Modern French débander), from des- (English dis-) + bande (English band), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”). By surface analysis, dis- + band.

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