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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disjoint.

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Examples

  • The difference is that this image disjoints itself from that moment by its prescient refusal of the usual models of repression, liberation, and recuperation.

    Ballardian » Better Living through Psychopathology 2010

  • I don't work in great Hospitals like The Agha Khan University Hospital -- but like any other brilliant hardworking male orthapedic surgeon, I too fix the same sort of battered broken disjoints all the same -- don't I?

    Let's Watch Them Die 2009

  • I don't work in great Hospitals like The Agha Khan University Hospital -- but like any other brilliant hardworking male orthapedic surgeon, I too fix the same sort of battered broken disjoints all the same -- don't I?

    Let's Watch Them Die 2009

  • M1 are pairwise disjoints, and the same holds for M2.

    Combining Logics Carnielli, Walter 2007

  • That Matthew, who recites this story, observed not the course and order of time, which was not unusual with him, as being he among all the evangelists that most disjoints the times of the stories.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • The Spider arrives hurriedly, snatches the giddy-pate and disjoints his shanks, which she empties of their contents, the best part of the insect.

    The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • It disjoints a party, often defeats the combinations which might affect the results of a season, and generally renders the society incoherent and unsatisfactory.

    Lothair Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • Hence every crack must disturb a hundred people applying their minds to some activity, however trivial it may be; while it disjoints and renders painful the meditations of the thinker; just like the executioner's axe when it severs the head from the body.

    Essays of Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer 1824

  • No wonder that such an opinion disjoints the ordinary frame of the mind, and throws it into the utmost confusion.

    Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion David Hume 1743

  • In short, my dear, like a restiff horse, (as I have heard described by sportsmen,) he pains one's hands, and half disjoints one's arms, to rein him in.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Samuel Richardson 1725

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