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disband

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Scrabble points
11
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13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/dɪsˈbænd/(UK)

Definition of disband

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse.
    “The president wanted to disband the scandal-plagued agency.”
    “I used to be in a punk band, but we disbanded in the early 1980s.”
    “Having taken a review of his Army at Ardachan, he disbanded his Army, and he himself continu'd his Journey to Erzirum”
    “The British Transport Commission, which was disbanded under the 1962 Transport Act that created the British Railways Board, had been established by Clement Attlee's Labour government at nationalisation 14 years earlier.”
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verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse.
    “The president wanted to disband the scandal-plagued agency.”
    “I used to be in a punk band, but we disbanded in the early 1980s.”
    “Having taken a review of his Army at Ardachan, he disbanded his Army, and he himself continu'd his Journey to Erzirum”
    “The British Transport Commission, which was disbanded under the 1962 Transport Act that created the British Railways Board, had been established by Clement Attlee's Labour government at nationalisation 14 years earlier.”
  2. (obsolete, transitive)To loose the bands of; to set free.
  3. (obsolete, transitive)To divorce.
    “And therefore […] she ought to be disbanded.”

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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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