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third-person singular simple present disbands, present participle disbanding, simple past and past participle disbanded
(transitive, intransitive) To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse. quotations examples
Having taken a review of his Army at Ardachan, he disbanded his Army, and he himself continu'd his Journey to Erzirum
1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip
The British Transport Commission, which was disbanded under the 1962 Transport Act that created the British Railways Board, had been established by Clement Attlee's Labour government at nationalisation 14 years earlier.
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53
(transitive, obsolete) To loose the bands of; to set free.
(transitive, obsolete) To divorce. quotations
And therefore […] she ought to be disbanded.
1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], book