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From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre, from Latin disiungere (“to separate”), from dis-, di- (“apart”) + iungere (“to join”). Equivalent to dis- +‎ join.

• (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsˈdʒɔɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪn

disjoin (third-person singular simple present disjoins, present participle disjoining, simple past and past participle disjoined)

1. (transitive) To separate; to disunite.
   • 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation:
     Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.
   • 1790, Thomas Pennant, Account Of London:
     Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses.
2. (intransitive) To become separated.

• disjoinable

• disjoiner

• disjoint

• disjointed (adjective)

• disjunct

• disjunction

• “disjoin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “disjoin”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• “disjoin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.