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dissociate

To dissociate is to break apart from someone, such as an employee leaving a business or a spouse leaving a marriage.

Dissociate is the opposite of associate. It comes from the Latin dissociare, which means basically "to disunite." To dissociate is to stop associating with someone. If a relationship ends, the two people dissociate from each other. If a person boycotts a business, she dissociates from it. Two business partners who have a fight and then split up have dissociated. When you see the word dissociate, think "break-up."

DEFINITIONS OF: dissociate

1

v part; cease or break association with

Synonyms:
disassociate, disjoint, disunite, divorce
Type of:
break, break up, part, separate, split, split up
discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

v regard as unconnected

“you must dissociate these two events!”
Synonyms:
decouple
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 to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms

“acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions”
Type of:
break down, break up, decompose
separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
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