Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

deunite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-u-nite
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To un-unite something; to separate what had become united.

Example Sentences

"But people united by the prospect of profit can be de'''united by either a prospect of no profit or a promise of greater profit from another source ."
"Josef Stalin deunited the Checheno-Ingush republic in 1944, and exiled immense numbers of Chechens and Ingushetians for their supposed collusion with the Nazis."
"But, as explains Pennell, it is also under the dynasty of the Maranids, in the XIVth c., that the whoe region of the Maghrib, or North Africa, started bying deunited: “from then on, the far west dominated by Marrakesh and Fès would be separate from the centre, or Ifriqiya, laying the basis for the territorial distinctiveness of Morocco” (Pennel, 2009: 64)."

Etymology

From de- + unite.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: de

Inflected Forms

deunites (present, singular) deuniting (participle, present) deunited (participle, past) deunited (past)

Questions

What does deunite mean?: To un-unite something; to separate what had become united.
Where does deunite come from?: From de- + unite.

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