to disaffiliate
1
7.5
- verb
- /ˌdɪsəˈfɪlieɪt/
- Formal
:
desafiliar
- If I disaffiliate, what happens to all the photos they grabbed?
Examples
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After years of membership, he made the difficult choice to disaffiliate from the organization due to conflicting values.
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Therefore, they are more completely disaffiliated and dispersed than their predecessors.
Academic text (1995) -
Furthermore, perceptions about time demands at work may also lead social workers to disaffiliate in a volunteer capacity, perhaps because of their need to deal with growing caseloads and other professional commitments.
Academic text (2008) -
This combination of characteristics suggests that those dependent on alcohol have truly disaffiliated themselves from parents and other societal institutions, such as regular employment and education, to become entrenched in street culture.
Academic text (2009) -
Having lived through the political, economic, and social turmoil following the debacle of 1898, the Spanish intelligentsia felt disaffiliated from the establishment that had precipitated the nation's crisis.
Academic text (1992) -
U.S. foreign policy is a shambles, and our standing even (especially?) in the countries we "liberated" recently from autocracy is plummeting; and a record number of voters have disaffiliated from the Democratic Party since 2008.
Blog text (21) -
I have asked them to show their disapproval of BSA discriminatory policies by publicly threatening to disaffiliate themselves or cease financially supporting the BSA if policies don't change.
Academic text (2000) -
The majority of South Carolina Episcopalians who attended a special convention at St. Philip's Church here on Nov. 17 affirmed actions by Bishop Mark Lawrence and the diocesan Standing Committee a month ago to disaffiliate the diocese from the Episcopal Church.
Blog text (26) -
Many students choose to disaffiliate from university clubs when they no longer share the same interests.
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When she decided to disaffiliate from the political party, she felt a sense of relief and newfound independence.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To go away from a place, person, or group
788
1.2
To leave a job or position
481
2.9
To move apart or stop being together
466
2.8
To stop taking part in a place or activity
214
3.0
To leave a course, competition or group before finishing
206
3.4
To stop being involved in an activity or agreement
82
5.3
To stop being part of or connected to something
79
3.2
Leave an activity or agreement you had joined
69
6.3
To give up a right, belief, job, or position officially
34
8.5
To leave a group or country and stop being part of it
30
4.1
To leave an organization and form a separate group
23
4.1
End a relationship with someone or something in a clear, final way
20
4.9
To stop doing a job or role politely
16
7.0
To end a connection with a person, group, or idea
11
6.2
To leave a group and form a smaller, separate one often after disagreement
8
3.9
Stop being together and take different paths in life
5
6.6
To stop depending on someone or something and become independent
3
6.7
To stop being involved with a person, group, or idea
1
6.8
To stop being signed up for a course, program, or school
To remove yourself or someone else from a course
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Morphology
Etymology
Disaffiliate comes from the prefix dis- meaning 'not' or 'the opposite of' and affiliate meaning 'to join or belong to a group'. So to disaffiliate is to officially end your connection or membership with a group.