Groups and collections
Synonyms for disband
The synonym for disband recorded in this bank is dissolve, in the sense "to formally break up a group and send its members away". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for disband
- dissolveverb, in the sense "to formally break up a group and send its members away"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and disband carries one sense so far.
to formally break up a group and send its members away
The committee voted to disband the club at the end of the season.
The true synonym
dissolve
Same sentence, swapped: The committee voted to dissolve the club at the end of the season.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for disband in the sentence quoted.
- mobilize
- recruit
- convene
Where disband turns up in the game
disband is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where disband is the trap
- mobilizeverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is marshal, in the sense "to organize and prepare a group of people for collective action", and disband is on the board beside it.
- musterverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is rally, in the sense "to assemble a group of people, especially troops or a crew, for inspection or action", with disband sitting one tile away.
Play disband
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so disband reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other groups and collections words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. disband carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.