deunite

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Definition of deunite

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To un-unite something; to separate what had become united.
    “But people united by the prospect of profit can be de'''united by either a prospect of no profit or a promise of greater profit from another source .”
    “Josef Stalin deunited the Checheno-Ingush republic in 1944, and exiled immense numbers of Chechens and Ingushetians for their supposed collusion with the Nazis.”
    “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).”

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Etymology

From de- + unite.

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