dissociate

Verb
  1. Part;
    Cease or break association with (synset 202435427)
    "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
    is a type of: break, break up, part, separate, split, split up - discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
    same as: disassociate, disjoint, disunite, divorce
  2. Regard as unconnected (synset 200716178)
    "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
    is a type of: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart - mark as different
    same as: decouple
  3. To undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms (synset 200210024)
    "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"
    referred to in: chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
    is a type of: break down, break up, decompose - separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

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