dissociate
1. regard as unconnected
- you must dissociate these two events!
- decouple our foreign policy from ideology
• Syn:
decouple
• Ant:
associate
• Derivationally related forms:
dissociative, dissociation
• Hypernyms:
distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate,
severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. part;
cease or break association with
- She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president
• Syn:
disassociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint
• Derivationally related forms:
disunion (for: disunite), dissociation, disassociation (for: disassociate)
• Hypernyms:
separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
3. to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms
- acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions
• Derivationally related forms:
dissociation
• Topics:
chemistry, chemical science
• Hypernyms:
decompose, break up, break down
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
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