decouple (v.)

  1. disconnect or separate; uncouple the hounds

    [ Syn: uncouple ]

  2. regard as unconnected; you must dissociate these two events!; decouple our foreign policy from ideology

    [ Syn: dissociate ]

  3. eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)

  4. reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)

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