disjoin
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɪsˈdʒɔɪn/
disjoin (disjoins, present participle disjoining; past and past participle disjoined)
- (transitive) To separate; to disunite.
- 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce:
- That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins.
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.
- Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses.
- (intransitive) To become separated.
- German: trennen
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