unhiving

Verb

unhive (third-person singular simple present unhives, present participle unhiving, simple past and past participle unhived)

1. (transitive) To drive or remove (bees) from a hive.
   • [T]he Mercers encreaſing prodigiouſly vvent back into the City; there like Bees unhiv'd they hover about a vvhile, not knovving vvhere to fix; but at laſt, as if they vvould come back to the old Hive in Pater-noſter Rovv, but could not be admitted, the ſvvarm ſettled on Lu[d]gate-hill.1727, [Daniel Defoe], “Of such Tradesmen who by the Necessary Consequences of Their Business are Oblig’d to be Accessary to the Propagation of Vice, and the Encrease of the Wickedness of the Times...
2. (archaic, transitive) To expel (a crowd, etc.) of habitation or shelter; to disband.
   • But if there be any who are herin delinquent; it were more justice and generosity to give a Catalogue of such Drones to those who have an undoubted Power to make them Labour, or Unhive them: And that the Righteous be not as the Wicked.1677, Lancelot Addison, A Modest Plea for the Clergy, page 98
3. To break apart; to disrupt.
   • It would have been a continual hell of time-consuming impugnable argument, bringing on the kind of conjugal weather that closesup the rose and unhives the family for lack of any honey whatsoever.2015, Jonathan Bayliss, Prologos