Dissociate Definition & Meaning

dissociate
verb
  1. part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
  2. regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
  3. to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"

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