English verb: dissociate | |||
1. | dissociate (social) part; cease or break association with | ||
Samples | She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president. | ||
Synonyms | disassociate, disjoint, disunite, divorce | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | break, break up, part, separate, split, split up | ||
2. | dissociate (cognition) regard as unconnected | ||
Samples | You must dissociate these two events!. Decouple our foreign policy from ideology. | ||
Synonyms | decouple | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart | ||
Antonyms | associate, colligate, link, relate, connect, tie in, link up | ||
3. | dissociate (change) to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms | ||
Samples | Acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions. | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | break down, break up, decompose | ||
Domain category | chemical science, chemistry | ||