dissociate
dis·so·ciate
verb
1.
part; cease or break association with
- “She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president”
2.
- “you must dissociate these two events!”
- “decouple our foreign policy from ideology”
3.
to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms
- “acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions”
Origin
From Latin dissociō + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from dis- (“apart”) + sociō (“join”), from socius (“related, leagued”).
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