deunite

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ unite.

Verb

deunite (third-person singular simple present deunites, present participle deuniting, simple past and past participle deunited)

1. To un-unite something; to separate what had become united.
   • 1991, Jon H. Huer, The Wages of Sin: America's Dilemma of Profit Against Humanity, page 29:

     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 .

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

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

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

     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).