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decouple

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: decouple

1
 v
disconnect or separate
2
 v
eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: decouple
1

v disconnect or separate

Synonyms:
uncouple
Antonyms:
couple, couple on, couple up
link together
Type of:
disconnect
make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten

v regard as unconnected

“decouple our foreign policy from ideology”
Synonyms:
dissociate
Antonyms:
associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in
make a logical or causal connection
Type of:
differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart
mark as different

v reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)

Type of:
do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of
terminate, end, or take out
2

v eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)

Type of:
do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of
terminate, end, or take out
Launch
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