disassociate
verbUK /dɪsəˈsəʊʃieɪt/
Etymology From dis- + associate.
1
To separate (oneself); to dissolve one's association with a person, group, or situation.
- After the scandal, the political party disassociated itself from the questionable candidate.
- If the whole membership disassociates, the result will be disestablishment.
1 more example
- Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), a group that promotes conservatism on college campuses, has kicked one of its prominent speakers, Michelle Malkin, to the curb. […] YAF did exactly the right thing by disassociating itself from Malkin for coming to Fuentes’ defense.2019 November 20, Dexter Van Zile, “Right-Wing Holocaust Denial — in America”, in The Algemeiner, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2020:
2
To separate into smaller discrete units, as with analysis.
Of a whole or of its parts
- The problem is easier to understand if you disassociate the variables.
3
Of linked components To separate; to disunite; to disintegrate; to dissolve.
- The fibers of this nonwoven textile disassociated when I tried to wash it.
4
Alternative, Proscribed Alternative form of dissociate.
- Antonyms
- associate
- Derived terms
- disassociation, disassociator
- Related terms
- dissociate, dissociation, dissolution, unaffiliated, unassociated