disjoin

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"As the body metabolizes the rapamycin, the two fragments disjoin, deactivating the system."

From Science Daily • Sep. 21, 2023

Uncouple, un-kup′l, v.t. to loose from being coupled: to disjoin: to set loose.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

When these irritative motions are disturbed, if the degree be not very great, the exertion of voluntary attention to any other object, or any sudden sensation, will disjoin these new habits of motion.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

How happy are all other living things, Which though the day disjoin by several flight, The quiet evening yet together brings, And each returns unto his love at night!

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote

It was seen that if in some way the X chromosomes failed to disjoin in certain eggs, the exceptions could be explained.

From A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Morgan, Thomas Hunt