disband

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dɪsˈbænd/
• Rhymes: -ænd

Verb

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

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

   The president wanted to disband the scandal-plagued agency.

   • Knolles

     They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling.

2. (obsolete) To loose the bands of; to set free.
3. (obsolete) To divorce.
   • Milton

     And therefore […] she ought to be disbanded.

Translations

to break up or cause to cease to exist

• Bulgarian: разпускам (bg) (raspuskám), разформировам (bg) (rasformirovam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解散 (cmn) (jiěsàn)

• Danish: afskaffe (da), nedlægge (da)
• Dutch: ontbinden (nl)
• Finnish: lakkauttaa (fi)
• French: démanteler (fr), décommissionner (fr), dissoudre (fr)
• German: auflösen (de)

• Hungarian: feloszlat (hu)
• Irish: scaoil (ga)
• Japanese: 解散する (ja) (かいさんする, kaisan suru)
• Polish: rozpuszczać (pl)
• Russian: распускать (ru) (raspuskátʹ) impf., распустить (ru) (raspustítʹ) pf., расформировывать (ru) (rasformiróvyvatʹ) impf., расформировать (ru) (rasformirovátʹ) pf.