0 present participle of disunite
1 to cause people to disagree so much that they can no longer work together effectively:
This list underlines the need for a coherent, compassionate and effective family policy at a time when the family is existing in a corrosive and disuniting atmosphere.
It is a disuniting feature.
It would create a district with three separate large centres of population, which would definitely be a disuniting factor.
One does not achieve anything by disuniting the notion of cause operating in the two explanations - or so it seems to me.
