• (British) IPA: /dɪsˈbænd/

disband (disbands, present participle disbanding; past and past participle disbanded)

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.

   • They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To loose the bands of; to set free.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To divorce.
   • 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce:

     And therefore […] she ought to be disbanded.

• disbandment

• French: démanteler, décommissionner, dissoudre
• German: auflösen
• Portuguese: dispersar, debandar
• Russian: распуска́ть