disjoin

[ dis-join ]

verb (used with object)

1. to undo or prevent the junction or union of; disunite; separate.

verb (used without object)

1. to become disunited; separate.

disjoin

/ dɪsˈdʒɔɪn /

verb

1. to disconnect or become disconnected; separate

Derived Forms

• disˈjoinable, adjective

Other Words From

• dis·joina·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of disjoin¹

1475–85; Middle English disjoinen < Old French desjoindre < Latin disjungere, equivalent to dis- dis- ¹ + jungere to join

Example Sentences

"As the body metabolizes the rapamycin, the two fragments disjoin, deactivating the system."

From Science Daily

He begins by arguing that cant, with its exuberant deformation of traditional language, is itself a form of art: “To the degree to which thieves’ cants join and disjoin the phonological and semantic levels in their procedures, they come close, in structure, to the variety of literary discourse that Valéry once defined as the ‘prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.’

From Slate

Although we sympathize with the sadness of those who lament the decay of forms and methods round which so many associations have wound their tendrils, and understand the sufferings which gentle, tender natures undergo from the forlorn homelessness of a period of doubt, speculation, reconstruction in every way, yet we cannot disjoin ourselves, by one moment's fear or regret, from the advance corps.

From Project Gutenberg

Uncouple, un-kup′l, v.t. to loose from being coupled: to disjoin: to set loose.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

Scoundrel and saint are alike welcome to the priest's services and blessings if the marriage fees be paid; and with the full concurrence and blessing of any sectary in the world, a man may disjoin himself from a woman or women he has lived with for years in order to take another, if there was no marriage uniting him to these he deserted.

From Project Gutenberg