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English verb: decouple | |||
| 1. | decouple (contact) disconnect or separate | ||
| Samples | Uncouple the hounds. | ||
| Synonyms | uncouple | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | disconnect | ||
| Antonyms | couple on, couple up, couple | ||
| 2. | decouple (cognition) regard as unconnected | ||
| Samples | You must dissociate these two events!. Decouple our foreign policy from ideology. | ||
| Synonyms | dissociate | ||
| 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. | decouple (change) eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of | ||
| Domain category | natural philosophy, physics | ||
| 4. | decouple (change) reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of | ||
| Domain category | electronics | ||
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