transitive. To disband, dismiss, etc.; = cashier, v. 1.

transitive. To dismiss from service or fellowship. Military. To discharge, break up, disband (troops).

To break up (a band or company); to dissolve and dismiss from service (a military or other force).

transitive. Military. To form (troops) into a new regiment or company; to reorganize or disband (a regiment); (hence) to dismiss (troops) from…

Military. transitive. To break up or disband (a regiment or other force). Now rare.

= disband, v.

To discharge from military embodiment, as in the case of the militia at the close of each annual period of training.

transitive. To release (a military force, troops, etc.) from a state of being mobilized; esp. to release from military service at the end of a war…

transitive. To render immobile; to fix immovably; to keep (a joint or limb) without motion for surgical purposes; to render (troops) incapable of…

transitive. To release (a person) from military service, esp. at the end of a war. Also in extended use. Usually in passive. Cf. demobilize, v. 1.