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disassociate
Word definitions for disassociate in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To separate oneself from a person or situation. 2 (context transitive English) To separate into smaller discrete units. 3 (context intransitive English) To separate from related items.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from dis- + associate (v.). Related: Disassociated ; disassociating ; disassociation .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disassociate \Dis`as*so"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disassociated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disassociating .] To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate. --Florio.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" [syn: dissociate , divorce , disunite , disjoint ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But Coun Jackson said he, also, disassociated himself with her remarks. ▪ Dealers have felt a need to deprecate their own firms' values, to disassociate themselves from them. ▪ Hope and Digby Wyatt immediately disassociated themselves ...
Usage examples of disassociate.
Foley took the grape sherbert bar, thrust it quickly into his pocket, and disassociated himself from Larker.
But then in equally paradoxical contrast have a look at the next Advanced Basics speaker this tall baggy sack of a man, also painfully new, but this poor bastard here completely and openly nerve-racked, wobbling his way up to the front, his face shiny with sweat and his talk full of blank cunctations and disassociated leaps as the guy speaks with terrible abashed chagrin about trying to hang on to his job Out There as his A.
But after Don Guillermo I felt a feeling of shame and distaste, and with the coming of the drunkards and the worthless ones into the lines, and the abstention of those who left the lines as a protest after Don Guillermo, I wished that I might disassociate myself altogether from the lines, and I walked away, across the square, and sat down on a bench under one of the big trees that gave shade there.
Adele said, feeling disassociated from the cheerful bustle about her.
When it detonated, a shower of disassociated bricks first pummeled him into unconsciousness, then half buried him in one corner of the room.
She felt strangely disassociated from the world around her, as if all of it was a dream.
What ensued brought to fruition what had happened in the hallway moments before, and I found myself disassociating from the core of myself to survive what was nothing more than a ruthless attack.
But there's the chain-reaction feedback within an atmosphere and the disassociating effects of combined A and B follows the ununited A and B rays to their sourcethe ray generator.
Underneath the meteor intramolecular penetration of two materials changed solid rock from solid to vapor to the disassociated particles of a plasma in a time too short to measure.
The air smelled odd-not bad, but somehow alien-a blend of disassociated odors: canned green beans, adhesive tape, hot metal, rubbing alcohol, laundry soap.
Tristan and Isolde, unlike their Wagnerian namesakes, were cheerful, rea-sonably polite, and only seemed anxious to disassociate them-selves, as far as possible, from the old fart who was escorting them.
Later he would find out whether it had been reduced to disassociated polysaccharide chains and freeflowing pectins along with the rest of the forest, or whether it had been lifted and transported out of harm’s way.