dissociate

Verb	1.	dissociate - part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" disassociate, disjoint, disunite, divorce break up, part, split, split up, separate, break - discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
	2.	dissociate - regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology" decouple differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, separate, tell - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" associate, colligate, link, relate, tie in, connect, link up - make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all"
	3.	dissociate - to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions" chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions decompose, break down, break up - separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

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