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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dissociate
verb
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▪ At no time could his work for the press be dissociated from his political convictions.
▪ Once dissociated from coercive power, it will witness a renewal of spirituality.
▪ Some have dissociated themselves because the churches have turned them off through their disobedience and indifference.
▪ The first two of these have, for different reasons, dissociated themselves from the causal-corrective concerns of traditional criminology.
▪ The Socialists wanted to dissociate themselves with the republican government, which was losing its strength and unity.
▪ Those who set the monstrosity of globalisation in train seek in vain to dissociate themselves from the effects of their actions.
▪ We also know how rapidly the two became dissociated.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dissociate

dissociate \dis*so"ci*ate\ (d[i^]s*s[=o]"sh[i^]*[=a]t), v. t. [L. dissociatus, p. p. of dissociare to dissociate; dis- + sociare to unite, associate, socius companion. See Social.] To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.

Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer.
--A. W. Ward.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dissociate

1610s (implied in dissociated), from Latin dissociatus, past participle of dissociare "to separate from companionship, disunite, set at variance," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + sociare "to join," from socius "companion" (see social (adj.)). Attested from 1540s as a past participle adjective meaning "separated."

Wiktionary
dissociate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate. 2 (context intransitive English) To part; to stop associating. 3 (context chemistry transitive English) To separate compounds into simpler component parts, usually by applying heat or through electrolysis. 4 (context chemistry intransitive English) To undergo dissociation. 5 (context psychology intransitive English) To undergo dissociation.

WordNet
dissociate
  1. v. part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" [syn: disassociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint]

  2. regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology" [syn: decouple] [ant: associate]

  3. to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"

Usage examples of "dissociate".

One drink led to another, and by the time the story of the assaulted scarecrow had been thrice repeated at the special request of Miss Turner, who was able to extract from it at each telling fresh sources of enjoyment, the applejack had long dissociated itself from the bottle.

When we get to finals, I dissociate like a cop at a multiple decap MVA.

But as soon as the primacy of representation disappears, then the theory of discourse is dissociated, and one can encounter its disincarnated and metamorphosed form on two separate levels.

Cyberspace almost becomes a dissociated part of their own mind - a sealed-off intrapsychic zone where fantasies and conflicts are acted out.

Cyberspace becomes a dissociated part of their own mind, a sealed-off intrapsychic zone where conscious and unconscious needs are acted out, but never fully understood or satisfied.

I have therefore ventured to suggest the remedy of non-co-operation which enables those who wish, to dissociate themselves from the Government and which, if it is unattended by violence and undertaken in an ordered manner, must compel it to retrace its steps and undo the wrongs committed.

Rupakaya, its embodiment or embeddedness in the entire world of Form, and these merely dissociated and disengaged aspects of Enlightenment thought have to be teased apart from its true intuitions.

However, the type of tedious, automatonlike, internal observation that was used in the introspectionist school was so boring and unfruitful that even James dissociated himself from such experimental research.

Schelling, we will see in the next chapter, who first responded to this new world that was not only differentiating but rapidly dissociating.

That culture (and the rational-ego) can indeed repress and dissociate natural/libidinal impulses is true enough, and those alienated impulses need to be recontacted, freed from the cultural repressions, and reintegrated into the psyche (regression in service of the ego).

Since the biosphere/Gaia has indeed been dissociated, I agree that part of the cure is "derepression of the shadow"that is, recontacting the lower structure that has been alienated and distorted.

He was one of the dissociates, the circuitry projecting his mind into the shipnet burned out during the final, savage enemy broadside.

Further, the transformation from mythic-membership to egoic-ratio-nality (and its perils) is already open to China, Cuba, Libya, Iraq, North Korea, Serbia, and any other social holon that wishes to surrender its mythic "superiority" and join the community of nations governed by international law and mutual recognition, that wishes to cease dissociating and splitting off from the free exchange of planetary consciousness, that wishes to reintegrate into a common world spirit and collective sharing of reason and communication and vision.

She suffered his embrace, deliberately dissociating herself from this group of—of children.

Something is definitely dissociating seawater into hydrogen and oxygen.