Meaning & use

disband

verb·Academic

To officially stop existing as an organized group, or to cause a group to break up.

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The band decided to disband after their farewell tour ended last summer.

The committee was disbanded once the investigation reached its final conclusion.

A note on using this word

Disband applies to organized groups like bands, committees, or armies, not to informal gatherings of people.

Words with a similar meaning

dissolvebreak up

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Words with an opposite meaning

formestablish

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