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dissociate

[dih-soh-shee-eyt, -see-] / dɪˈsoʊ ʃiˌeɪt, -si- /
VERB
part company with; separate
Synonyms
STRONGEST
alienate detach disband disconnect disengage
STRONG
abstract disassociate disjoin disperse disrupt distance disunite divide divorce estrange isolate quit scatter segregate uncouple
WEAK
break off set apart unfix
Antonyms
STRONGEST
attach connect couple join link unite
STRONG
arrange collect combine complete gather marry
WEAK
associate

Example Sentences

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"You have to dissociate yourself. More or less, you are robotic. This is the way you have to behave, but inside, you are deeply injured. You are seeing the nation injured."

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024

You have to have to dissociate yourself from the character, but you also have to dissociate yourself from your work.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2024

That’s how we dissociate their humanity from ours.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2023

However, it has been hard to dissociate the degree and timing of cortical recruitment for motor control versus sensory processing generated by speech production.

From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2023

A miracle would be useful: if I could stage a convincing rebirth, I could dissociate from everything I’d said and done in the last year.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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