different between disband vs disbind

English

Etymology

Attested since the 1590s, from Middle French desbander (Modern French débander), from des- (English dis-) + bande (English band), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to tie”). Surface analysis dis- +? band.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?bænd/
• Rhymes: -ænd

Verb

disband (third-person singular simple present disbands, present participle disbanding, simple past and past participle disbanded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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.

   • Having taken a review of his Army at Ardachan, he disbanded his Army, and he himself continu'd his Journey to Erzirum

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

Related terms

• disbandment

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References

Anagrams

• Sindbad

English

Etymology

From dis- +? bind. Compare disband.

Verb

disbind (third-person singular simple present disbinds, present participle disbinding, simple past and past participle disbound)

1. (transitive) To unbind; to loosen.
   • a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon

     Nay how dare we disbind or loose our ?elves from the tie of that way of agnizing and honouring God

   • 2012, Leah Price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, Princeton University Press, page 6.

     Under what circumstances is it acceptable to annotate, extra-illustrate, cut up, disbind, rebind, reprint, recycle or discard books?