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DISBAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disband mean?
• DISBAND (verb)
The verb DISBAND has 2 senses:
1. cause to break up or cease to function
2. stop functioning or cohering as a unit
Familiarity information: DISBAND used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: disbanded
Past participle: disbanded
-ing form: disbanding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to break up or cease to function
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
the principal disbanded the political student organization
Hypernyms (to "disband" is one way to...):
break up; dispel; disperse; dissipate; scatter (to cause to separate and go in different directions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Derivation:
disbandment (the act of disbanding)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Stop functioning or cohering as a unit
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
disband; dissolve
Context example:
The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting
Hypernyms (to "disband" is one way to...):
break up (come apart)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
disbandment (the act of disbanding)
Context examples
I had also bestowed a shilling on the Orfling, who was about to be disbanded.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Nay, the White Company is here disbanded,” answered Sir Hugh solemnly, looking round him at the lines of silent figures.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They must needs hold a council and put their two hundred thick heads together, and then there comes this fellow Aylward and another, as their spokesmen, to say that they will disband unless an Englishman of good name be set over them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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