DISBANDED Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

disbanded

verb

past tense of disband

as in dissolved

to cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization the university disbanded the committee after the report had been submitted the rock group disbanded upon finishing their farewell tour

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to cause (members of a group) to move widely apart police disbanded the rioters with tear gas

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Recent Examples of disbanded But August eventually passed, and by September our collective had disbanded for college. — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026 After the 2020 security law, leading activists were arrested and civil society groups disbanded. — Kanis Leung, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2026 Turkey and Saudi Arabia are particularly pleased that the SDF will be disbanded due to its historic relationship to the Kurdistan Workers Party, a group widely condemned as a terrorist organization. — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2026 The Moral Majority was disbanded just before his book was published. — Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026 The band formed in New York City in 1973, and disbanded for the first time in 1978 after the release of their sophomore album. — Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2026 The task force disbanded in February 1993, according to Iowa Cold Cases. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026 Lee was a veteran unionist spending his career fighting to improve workers’ conditions while Ho, a lawyer by profession, was a founding member of the city’s biggest opposition Democratic Party, which was disbanded in late 2025. — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 Dozens of other civil society groups also disbanded following its introduction. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026

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The Caroline Bezengi’s last registered owner of record is Rentoor Shipmanagement Ltd, a Marshall Islands company dissolved on February 24.

— Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
Wolf changes the ritual so that the Dragon’s Heritage is dissolved, along with Kuro’s body, and Wolf loses his immortality.

— Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026

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