disband
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Asked about the Wednesday letter by the congressional delegation, Yakama Nation Chairman Delano Saluskin said, “They need to cancel that little board. Disband that whole thing.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2021
Disband it and/or call it something else instead.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2018
Karzai Orders Guard Firms to Disband KABUL, Afghanistan — President issued a decree on Tuesday ordering the disbanding of private security forces in by the end of the year.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2010
An old lady rushed up to a policeman shrieking: "Disband this group of ruffians."
From Time Magazine Archive
Disband, dis-band′, v.t. to break up a band: to disperse, esp. of troops.—v.i. to break up.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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