| 单词 | disunion |
| 释义 | disunion (once / 4515 pages) n Disunion describes what happens when a club disbands or a marriage breaks up. The disunion of your book group means all the members have gone their separate ways. The noun disunion means the coming apart of some connection or alliance, and because it's such a formal word it's often used to talk about governments or business federations. You could say that the disunion of Britain and India resulted in Partition, or that the US Civil War nearly ended in disunion. The word combines dis, "lack or not," and union, with its Latin root of unionem, "oneness or unity." WORD FAMILYdisunion: disunions+/reunify: reunification, reunified, reunifies, reunifying/reunion: reunify, reunions/union: disunion, nonunion, reunion, unionise, unionism, unionize, unions/unionise: unionisation, unionised/unionised: nonunionised/unionism: unionist/unionist: unionists/unionize: unionization, unionized, unionizing/unionized: nonunionized USAGE EXAMPLESAmericans hoped that commerce, ignited by infrastructure, would weld the nation’s sections, defusing the danger of disunion. Washington Post(Nov 25, 2016) Garrison, the Massachusetts abolitionist, advocated “disunion” from the start. Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016) But their soundings revealed more disunion than harmony, so expectations for Bratislava were played down. Economist(Sep 17, 2016) n the termination or destruction of union Ant|Hypo|Hyper conjugation, jointure, unification, union, uniting the act of making or becoming a single unit detribalisation, detribalization the decline or termination of tribal organization separation the act of dividing or disconnecting |
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