disband
/dɪsˈbænd/
disband verb: to break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse.
Verb
disband (third-person singular simple present disbands, present participle disbanding, simple past and past participle disbanded)
- 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.
- To loose the bands of; to set free.
- To divorce.
- And therefore […] she ought to be disbanded.1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC
disband meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
disband in Tamil
- கலை, கலைத்து விடு, கலைத்துவிடு
disband in Malayalam
- പട്ടാളത്തിൽനിന്നും പിരിച്ചുവിടുക, വിട്ടുപോവുക
disband in Kannada
- ಕೂಟಮುರಿ, ವಿಸರ್ಜಿಸು, ತ್ಯಜಿಸು, ಚೆದರಿ ಹೋಗು
disband in Arabic
- to break up or cause to cease to exist
- حَلَّ ḥalla, سَرَّحَ sarraḥa
More languagesFewer languages
- disband in Persian
- منحل کردن monhal kardan
Examples of disband in a sentence
- The bank robbers disbanded after everyone got their cut of the money.
- Sororities can receive large fines from their national chapters for dirty rushing and can be disbanded.
- The RCP was a tiny British party, founded in the 70s, officially disbanded in the late 90s.
Forms of disband
| third-person singular present | disbands |
|---|---|
| present participle | disbanding |
| past participle | disbanded |
| past | disbanded |
Origin of disband
Attested since the 1590s, from Middle French desbander (Modern French débander), from des- (English dis-) + bande (English band), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”). By surface analysis, dis- + band.
Words formed from disband
Words that rhyme with disband
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- outstand
- overhand
- bestand
- gland
- secondhand
- unscanned
- grand
- offhand
- unmanned
- unplanned
- aband
- aland
- fanned
- firsthand
- lotus land
- lotusland
- misbrand
- planned
- redemand
- reland
- repand
- scanned
- shand
- tanned
- thirdhand
- withstand
- 2ndhand
- astrand
- at second hand
- banned
- counterdemand
- desand
- fand
- grande
- haircut band
- hand
- interstrand
- manned
- misunderstand
- multiplicand
- nonbrand
- operand
- overmanned
- overplanned
- panned
- preplanned
- rebrand
- replanned
Questions about disband
- What does disband mean?
- Disband means to break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse.
- What is disband in Tamil?
- Disband in Tamil is கலை, கலைத்து விடு, கலைத்துவிடு. See Disband meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is disband?
- Disband is a verb.
- How do you pronounce disband?
- Disband is pronounced /dɪsˈbænd/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of disband?
- The past tense of disband is disbanded.
Words near disband in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disband (page history and authors); disband (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disband (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disband (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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