8 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
verb part; cease or break association with
verb separate at the joints
verb make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of
originFrom Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).
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