Meaning

3 senses
  1. (ambitransitive)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.

    auflösen

    распуска́тьraspuskátʹ, распусти́тьraspustítʹ, расформиро́выватьrasformiróvyvatʹ

    cause to break up or cease to function

  2. (obsolete, transitive)To loose the bands of; to set free.

  3. (obsolete, transitive)To divorce.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. The group disbanded.

    deDie Gruppe löste sich auf.

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  2. My reading group voted to disband.

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  3. That same year, the group disbanded.

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  4. I hear that popular group will be disbanded.

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  5. They should be disbanded.

    ruИх следует распустить.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to break up or cause to cease to exist:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to break up or cause to cease to exist:

Origin

Attested since the 1590s, from Middle French desbander (Modern French débander), from des-

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.

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Forms

disbands, disbanding, disbanded, disbanded
Base formdisband · to disband
3rd person singulardisbands
Present participledisbanding
Past simpledisbanded
Past participledisbanded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydisband
he, she, itdisbands

Past simpleLesson

all personsdisbanded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave disbanded
he, she, ithas disbanded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill disband

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • stop functioning or cohering as a unit:dissolve

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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