verb
definition
To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse.
example
I used to be in a punk band, but we disbanded in the early 1980s.
definition
To loose the bands of; to set free.
definition
To divorce.
Examples of disbanded in a Sentence
These new battalions were disbanded in 1882.
The Macedonian veterans were then disbanded, and the Persians taken into his army.
When King James disbanded his army and fled to France, Sarsfield accompanied him.
The insurrectionists promptly disbanded.
Two days later the 19th were publicly disbanded, but no further punishment was attempted.
After the Puritan army had been disbanded, the king resolved to keep on foot a petty force of 5000 men, and he had much difficulty in providing for it out of a revenue which had not been intended by those who voted it to be used for such a purpose.
A small battalion of Karens enlisted as sappers and miners proved a failure and had to be disbanded.
The universal is the real; it is that which gives coherence and individuality to the particulars of sense which apart from it are like the routed or disbanded units of an army.
After 1870 the Hanoverian regiment was disbanded, but the sequestration continued.
As a result, President Grant pronounced for Baxter, and the Brooks forces disbanded.
Army rearguards and the increasing number of disbanded soldiers confirmed his impressions.
The naval and military forces were disbanded, but Charles managed to retain under the name of guards three regiments, which remained the nucleus of a standing army.
In 1851 the first Committee of Vigilance was formed and served from June to September, when it disbanded; it was the nucleus of the second and greater committee, active from May to August of 1856.
In 1865, however, after the Civil War, he broke with Garrison over the question of discontinuing the Anti-Slavery Society, and from that date until the society was disbanded in 1870 he, instead of Garrison, was its president.
Outbreaks among the troops at Karachi, Ahmedabad and Kolhapur were quickly put down, two regiments being disbanded, and the rebellions in Gujarat, among the Bhils, and in the southern Mahratta country were local and isolated.
Strafford was recalled to expiate his career on the scaffold; the army was disbanded; and the helm of the state remained in the hands of a land-jobber and of a superannuated Rebel lion soldier.
Disbanded troops are the ready weapons of1641.
Sent by Garibaldi to Tuscany, he attempted to invade the Papal States with a volunteer brigade, but his followers were disarmed and disbanded by Ricasoli and Cavour.
This fell in May, when Gordon returned to Quinsan and disbanded his force.
The Land Army was finally disbanded in November 1950.
They are almost disbanded.
The evidence he secured led to the arrest, conviction, and execution or imprisonment of a large number of members during the years 1876-1877, and subsequently the outrages ceased and the society was disbanded.
The Club was founded in 1786 and temporarily disbanded in 1861 when hunting ceased in the Country.
The majority stayed with the TGWU, but the rank and file movement formally disbanded in 1938.
The Club officially disbanded on 31 January, 1959.
The band's double A side single release 'You're Gonna Lose Us/ The Wrong Way To Be' in December 2005 saw a collaboration with the now disbanded Suede's guitarist Bernard Butler.
Stone Temple Pilots remained disbanded until 2008, when they decided to reform for a few festival performances.
The girls worked together to record some demos, but eventually they had creative differences and the group disbanded.
The group disbanded for good shortly after the albums tour.
New Edition eventually disbanded, and Starr decided to find the "white counterparts" to the group.
They disbanded their groups when they went their separate ways for college - Saliers to Tulane and Ray to Vanderbilt.
Darlin' was soon disbanded, but Bangalter and de Homem-Christo decided to carry on making music together, and to borrow a line from the review that stuck with them as their new band name.
In 1945 the federal government disbanded the SSB and established the Social Security Administration (SSA) to manage distributing benefits, but left the IRS in charge of collecting the funds.
He had after the siege of Miletus disbanded the GraecoMacedonian fleet, surrendering for the time all attempts of Alex- to challenge the command of the Aegean.
The Klan was twice reorganized, in 1867 and in 1868, each time being more centralized; in 1869 the central organization was disbanded and the order then gradually declined.
Mercenary troops are said to have been first levied from disbanded Germans, together with Breton and English adventurers, whom the Visconti and Castruccio took into their pay.
Count Serristori, the grand-ducal comiiissioner, arrived in Florence on the 4th of May 1849; the -iational guard was disbanded; and on the 25th, the Austrians inder dAspre entered Florence.
Of the surviving mutineers over twelve hundred were executed, some of them by his own hand, and the entire corps was disbanded.
The militia was disbanded in 1762, and Gibbon joyfully shook off his bonds; but his literary projects were still to be postponed.
Wei-hai-wei was made the headquarters of a native Chinese regiment in the pay of Great Britain, and organized and led by British officers; but this regiment was disbanded in 1902.
In 1875 a geological commission was organized under the direction of Professor Charles Frederick Hartt, but it was disbanded two years later.
Sikukuni's stronghold was captured and his forces disbanded.
In 1790 Prince Nicholas Esterhazy died and the Kapelle was disbanded.
He entered the army of Henry IV., and served in Brittany under Jean d'Aumont, Francois de St Luc and Charles de Brissac. When the army of the League was disbanded he accompanied his uncle, who had charge of the ships in which the Spanish allies were conveyed home, and on reaching Cadiz secured (1599) the command of one of the vessels about to make an expedition to the West Indies.
Thus when Pompey landed in Italy and disbanded his army he found in Caesar a natural ally.
A Committee of Safety was appointed at a public meeting, which formed a provisional government and reorganized the volunteer military companies, which had been disbanded in 1890.
It was under Leopold, also, that the Austrian standing army was established in spite of much opposition; the regiments raised in 1672 were never disbanded.
And Hellas was cut short by the seizure of Messana by the disbanded Campanian mercenaries of Agathocles (c. 282), who proclaimed themselves a new people in a new city by the name of Mamertines, children of Mamers or Mars.
If the kings of Sicily on this side the Pharos kept Corfu down to 1386, those beyond the Pharos became in 1311 overlords of Athens, when that duchy was seized by Catalan adventurers, disbanded after the wars of Sicily.
The enterprise of a usurper in Syria in the year 872 caused the caliph to require the presence of Ahmad in that country at the head of an army to quell it; and although this army was not actually employed for the purpose, it was not disbanded by Abmad, who on his return founded a fresh city called Kati, the fiefs, S.E.