deunite

present singular third person deunites · participle present deuniting · participle past deunited · past deunited

1. To un-unite something; to separate what had become united.

   But people united by the prospect of profit can be deunited by either a prospect of no profit or a promise of greater profit from another source .

   1991, Jon H. Huer, The Wages of Sin: America's Dilemma of Profit Against Humanity, page 29

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   Josef Stalin deunited the Checheno-Ingush republic in 1944, and exiled immense numbers of Chechens and Ingushetians for their supposed collusion with the Nazis.

   2003, Paul K. Davis, Besieged: 100 Great Sieges from Jericho to Sarajevo, page 360

   But, as explains Pennell, it is also under the dynasty of the Maranids, in the XIVth c., that the whoe region of the Maghrib, or North Africa, started bying deunited: “from then on, the far west dominated by Marrakesh and Fès would be separate from the centre, or Ifriqiya, laying the basis for the territorial distinctiveness of Morocco” (Pennel, 2009: 64).

   2021, Sandrine Simon, (Please provide the book title or journal name)