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disjoin
Example Sentences
"As the body metabolizes the rapamycin, the two fragments disjoin, deactivating the system."
He begins by arguing that cant, with its exuberant deformation of traditional language, is itself a form of art: “To the degree to which thieves’ cants join and disjoin the phonological and semantic levels in their procedures, they come close, in structure, to the variety of literary discourse that Valéry once defined as the ‘prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.’
Although we sympathize with the sadness of those who lament the decay of forms and methods round which so many associations have wound their tendrils, and understand the sufferings which gentle, tender natures undergo from the forlorn homelessness of a period of doubt, speculation, reconstruction in every way, yet we cannot disjoin ourselves, by one moment's fear or regret, from the advance corps.
Uncouple, un-kup′l, v.t. to loose from being coupled: to disjoin: to set loose.—adj.
Scoundrel and saint are alike welcome to the priest's services and blessings if the marriage fees be paid; and with the full concurrence and blessing of any sectary in the world, a man may disjoin himself from a woman or women he has lived with for years in order to take another, if there was no marriage uniting him to these he deserted.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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