dissociate

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: dis=so=ci=ate

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dissociate, v.
1 tr. & intr. (usu. foll. by from) disconnect or become disconnected; separate (dissociated her from their guilt).
2 tr. Chem. decompose, esp. reversibly.
3 tr. Psychol. cause (a person's mind) to develop more than one centre of consciousness.

Idiom

dissociated personality Psychol. the pathological coexistence of two or more distinct personalities in the same person. dissociate oneself from
1 declare oneself unconnected with.
2 decline to support or agree with (a proposal etc.).

Derivative

dissociative adj.

Etymology

L dissociare (as DIS-, socius companion)

THESAURUS

dissociate

abrupt, abstract, alienate, cast off, cast out, catalyze, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, delete, depart, detach, dialyze, disarticulate, disassociate, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, distance, disunite, divide, divorce, eject, electrolyze, estrange, expel, hydrolyze, isolate, leave, part, photolyze, pull away, pull back, pull out, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, split, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, subtract, throw off, throw out, uncouple, unyoke, withdraw

ROGET THESAURUS

dissociate

Disjunction

VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.