d 2 i 1 s 1 b 3 a 1 n 1 d 2
7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb cause to break up or cease to function
verb stop functioning or cohering as a unit
originAttested since the 1590s, from Middle French desbander (Modern French débander), from des- (English dis-) + bande (English band), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”). By surface analysis, dis- + band.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0