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disband

verb
/dɪsˈbænd/UK

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.

  1. derived from *bʰendʰ-✻
  2. borrowed from desbander

Definitions

  1. To break up or (cause to) cease to exist

    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

  2. To loose the bands of

    To loose the bands of; to set free.

  3. To divorce.

    • And therefore […] she ought to be disbanded.

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Derived

disbander, undisbanded

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disband. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at disband. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at disband

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA