disassociate
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disassociate (third-person singular simple present disassociates, present participle disassociating, simple past and past participle disassociated)
- To separate (oneself); to dissolve one's association with a person, group, or situation.
- Coordinate term: disestablish
- After the scandal, the political party disassociated itself from the questionable candidate.
- If the whole membership disassociates, the result will be disestablishment.
- (transitive) To separate into smaller discrete units, as with analysis.
- The problem is easier to understand if you disassociate the variables.
- Coordinate term: granularize
- (intransitive, of linked components) To separate; to disunite; to disintegrate; to dissolve.
- The fibers of this nonwoven textile disassociated when I tried to wash it.
- (proscribed) Alternative form of dissociate