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Disband   /dɪsbˈænd/   Listen
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Disband  v. t.  (past & past part. disbanded; pres. part. disbanding)  
1.
To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army. "They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling."
2.
To divorce. (Obs.) "And therefore... she ought to be disbanded."


Disband  v. i.  To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization. "When both rocks and all things shall disband." "Human society would in a short space disband."





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"Disband" Quotes from Famous Books



... polygamous wife of a Mormon while the husband was in Europe on a mission. As he was entering his house in Salt Lake City, on the third day of the following month, he was shot dead. An order that had been given to disband the volunteer troops still remaining in the territory was countermanded from Washington, and General Sherman, then commander of that department, telegraphed to Young that he hoped to hear of no more murders of Gentiles in Utah, intimating that, if he did, it would be easy ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn
... with the report, which every moment gained strength, that the Commissary was about to quit the colony was so evident, that Toussaint's wishes seemed likely to be accomplished. The insurgents did not, indeed, disband: they had been too often deceived by the Commissary's bland promises to do that before they had gained their point: but there was every reason to believe that they would march upon the town, only to secure the departure of Hedouville and ...
— The Hour and the Man - An Historical Romance • Harriet Martineau
... the expedition commenced to disband. Commander Peary and his family returned to the United States ...
— A Negro Explorer at the North Pole • Matthew A. Henson
... the brig to some spot where there is little or no chance of our falling in with other craft. Then, perhaps, if we can cruise for a month or six weeks without taking a prize, the men may be content to accept their share of the booty, and disband, especially as I should tell them that they may divide my own share between them. And now, good-bye, with many ...
— A Middy in Command - A Tale of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood
... war of 1870. We were retreating toward Pont-Audemer, after having passed through Rouen. The army, consisting of about twenty thousand men, twenty thousand routed men, disbanded, demoralized, exhausted, were going to disband ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant


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