dislink

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ link.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈlɪŋk/

Verb

dislink (third-person singular simple present dislinks, present participle dislinking, simple past and past participle dislinked)

1. (rare) To unlink; to disunite or separate.
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 141:

     she dislink'd herself

   • 1896, William Sloane Kennedy, Reminiscences of Walt Whitman, page 178:

     Let it be distinctly understood that, while I have drawn a parallel between Victor Hugo and Walt Whitman, as regards their radicalism in poetical reform, I should wish distinctly and emphatically to assert that the Whitmanesque reform in style —as illustrated in its best specimens,— is as far in advance of that of Hugo as his was in advance of Classicism. Whitman's method dislinks entirely from all past theories.

References

• “dislink”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.