disassociate

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ associate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈsəʊʃieɪt/ or /dɪsəˈsəʊsieɪt/

Verb

disassociate (third-person singular simple present disassociates, present participle disassociating, simple past and past participle disassociated)

2. To separate (oneself); to dissolve one's association with a person, group, or situation.

   Coordinate term: disestablish

   After the scandal, the political party disassociated itself from the questionable candidate.

   If the whole membership disassociates, the result will be disestablishment.

   • 2019 November 20, Dexter Van Zile, “Right-Wing Holocaust Denial — in America”, in The Algemeiner‎:

     Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), a group that promotes conservatism on college campuses, has kicked one of its prominent speakers, Michelle Malkin, to the curb. […] YAF did exactly the right thing by disassociating itself from Malkin for coming to Fuentes’ defense.

4. (transitive, of a whole or of its parts) To separate into smaller discrete units, as with analysis.

   Hyponyms: (n = 2) decouple, uncouple, unpair

   Coordinate term: granularize

   The problem is easier to understand if you disassociate the variables.

6. (intransitive, of linked components) To separate; to disunite; to disintegrate; to dissolve.

   The fibers of this nonwoven textile disassociated when I tried to wash it.

7. (proscribed) Alternative form of dissociate.

Antonyms

• associate

Derived terms

• disassociation
• disassociator

Related terms

• dissociate
• dissociation
• dissolution
• unaffiliated
• unassociated