to disaffiliate
1
7.5
- verb
- /ˌdɪsəˈfɪlieɪt/
- Formal
- 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
791
1.2
To leave a job or position
440
4.1
End a relationship with someone or something in a clear, final way
321
2.9
To move apart or stop being together
311
2.8
To stop taking part in a place or activity
304
3.0
To leave a course, competition or group before finishing
228
3.4
To stop being involved in an activity or agreement
151
3.2
Leave an activity or agreement you had joined
70
6.3
To give up a right, belief, job, or position officially
52
8.5
To leave a group or country and stop being part of it
51
5.3
To stop being part of or connected to something
27
4.1
To leave an organization and form a separate group
25
6.2
To leave a group and form a smaller, separate one often after disagreement
24
4.9
To stop doing a job or role politely
16
6.6
To stop depending on someone or something and become independent
15
7.0
To end a connection with a person, group, or idea
9
3.9
Stop being together and take different paths in life
5
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
1
4.8
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.