Dissociate (Verb)

Meaning ¹

Regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology".

Classification

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.

Examples

• The government took measures to dissociate the country's foreign policy decisions from any one ideology.
• It is crucial to dissociate correlation with causation when analyzing statistical data.
• We must dissociate personal opinions from our objective reporting of the news.
• The manager had to dissociate her professional decision-making from her friendship with one of the employees.
• The researchers sought to dissociate one hypothesis from another in order to isolate the true cause of the phenomenon.

Synonyms

• Decouple

Antonyms

• Associate

Hypernyms

• Secern
• Secernate
• Tell Apart
• Differentiate
• Severalise
• Distinguish
• Severalize
• Tell

Related Words

• Dissociative (adjective)
• Dissociation (noun)

Meaning ²

Part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president".

Classification

Verbs of political and social activities and events.

Synonyms

• Disassociate
• Disjoint
• Divorce
• Disunite

Hypernyms

• Break
• Split
• Split Up
• Separate
• Break Up

Related Words

• Dissociation (noun)

Meaning ³

To undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions".

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Hypernyms

• Break Down
• Break Up

Related Words

• Dissociation (noun)