dissociate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dissociate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for dissociate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dissociate v part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" Synonym(s): disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology" Synonym(s): decouple, dissociate Antonym(s): associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dissociate \Disso"ciate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dissociated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dissociating}.] [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.