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Verb: disestablish  ,dis-u'sta-blish
  1. Deprive (an established church) of its status
    "The government moved to disestablish the state religion"

Derived forms: disestablished, disestablishes, disestablishing

Type of: immiserate, immiserise [Brit], immiserize, impoverish

Encyclopedia: Disestablish