Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To dissociate, as the members of a pair.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To separate (a pair).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To separate (a pair).

Etymologies

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dis- +‎ pair

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