· part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
Synonym(s): disassociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint
Hypernym(s): separate, part, split_up, split, break, break_up
· regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
Synonym(s): decouple
Hypernym(s): distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell_apart
Antonym(s): associate
· to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"
Hypernym(s): decompose, break_up, break_down