disband

1590s, from Middle French desbander (Modern French débander), from des- (English dis-) + bande (English band),[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”). Surface analysis dis- +‎ band.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈbænd/
• Rhymes: -ænd

disband (third-person singular simple present disbands, present participle disbanding, simple past and past participle disbanded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Knolles

     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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     And therefore […] she ought to be disbanded.

• disbandment

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