dissociate meaning and definition

DISSOCIATE verb

Definition of dissociate (verb)

1. part; cease or break association with
   • "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
   • synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, disunite, divorce
2. regard as unconnected
   • "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
   • synonyms: decouple
   • antonym: associate
3. to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms
   • "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"