disunify

dis- +‎ unify.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈjuːnɨfaɪ/
• (General American) enPR: dĭs-yo͞oʹnĭ-fī', IPA^(key): /dɪsˈjunɪ̈faɪ/
• Rhymes: -uːnɪfaɪ
• Hyphenation: dis‧unify

disunify (third-person singular simple present disunifies, present participle disunifying, simple past and past participle disunified)

1. (transitive) To cause to cease to be unified; to split up or dissociate.
   • 2007 January 10, A.O. Scott, “A Film Festival for a Jewish World That Spans the Globe”, in New York Times‎:

     And so the 16th annual New York Jewish Film Festival — not to be confused with the Woody Allen retrospective currently wrapping up downtown at Film Forum — presents an engagingly disunified program, with something to appeal to, or alienate, every taste.

• unify

• disunification