disjointing

Verb

disjoint (third-person singular simple present disjoints, present participle disjointing, simple past and past participle disjointed)

1. To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
   • Near-synonyms: unjoin; disassemble, take apart

   Synonyms:

   disarticulate, unjoin, disassemble, take apart

   Antonyms:

   rejoint, rearticulate

2. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
   • a disjointed speech
3. (obsolete) To fall into pieces.
   • But let the frame of things dis-ioynt, / Both the Worlds ſuffer, / Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and ſleepe / In the affliction of theſe terrible Dreames, / That ſhake vs Nightly : Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue ſent to peace, / Then on the torture of the Minde...c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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