part; cease or break association with; She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president

[ Syn: disassociate , divorce , disunite , disjoint ]

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

[ Syn: decouple ]

to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions'