JOINING Antonyms

• the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery)

• relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles

• cause to break up or cease to function

• stop functioning or cohering as a unit

• an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)

• pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable

• make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten

• part; cease or break association with

• force, take, or pull apart

• the legal dissolution of a marriage

• part; cease or break association with

• get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage

• independent; not united or joint

• a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication

• a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments

• standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything

• separated according to race, sex, class, or religion

• have the connection undone; having become separate

• act as a barrier between; stand between

• force, take, or pull apart

• mark as different

• separate into parts or portions

• divide into components or constituents

• arrange or order by classes or categories

• make a division or separation

• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

• go one's own way; move apart

• become separated into pieces or fragments

• treat differently on the basis of sex or race

• move or break apart

• divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

• remove the yoke from

• make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of

• become separated, disconnected or disjoint