to disassociate
- verb
- /ˌdɪsəˈsoʊsieɪt/
- She decided to disassociate herself from negative influences in her life.
- effectively disassociate
- actively disassociate
- attempt to disassociate
Confusion, I felt disassociated from my own life.
- Confusion, I felt disassociated from my own life.
- But often it's just a form of numbing that disassociates and disconnects you from you.
- And ultimately I had to kind of disassociate myself with him.
- These were very traumatizing and my brain loves to disassociate from trauma.
- Because voters are able to, to disassociate their votes on state issues from federal issues.
- But you know, it's really weird because you kind of disassociate from it.
- It's what happens when the electrons and the neutrons become completely disassociated.
- And again, we have to feel safe enough to be able to reassociate those disassociated parts.
- You lose your entire career or you you have to disassociate yourself from him and divorce him as soon as possible.
- And I hear so many people disassociate money and happiness, IE money is the root of all evil.
- And it's one of the most beautiful things that you can do to build connection and to start overcoming that disassociated state that so many of us live in.
- Man, the artist, couldn't disassociate himself from Hitler, the failed artist, but the artist nevertheless.
- When we are disassociated with our values and not in alignment with them, our bodies react.
- Did you ever notice that in times of stress or conflict that he would seem to withdraw or disassociate in some way?
- But I've never seen somebody be so disassociated in my life.
Examples
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In this case, again, the speaker must disassociate himself from what he said.
Academic text (1997) -
People want to disassociate themselves from it, from the horror of it.
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And ultimately I had to kind of disassociate myself with him.
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Because voters are able to, to disassociate their votes on state issues from federal issues.
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When students burn a campus building, it becomes necessary for us to disassociate ourselves from that behavior.
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Mind you, I have no such intention, but if I did, I would disassociate myself entirely from the present.
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Did you ever notice that in times of stress or conflict that he would seem to withdraw or disassociate in some way?
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I've tried to disassociate myself from him.
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The university has taken pains to disassociate itself from the private speech involved in this case.
Academic text (1996) -
Many of these young people disassociated their own well-being from that of the nation.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
To go away from a place, person, or group
To remove something from a place or container
End a relationship or go separate ways
To move apart or stop being together
To stop taking part in a place or activity
To stop being involved in an activity or agreement
To separate something so it is no longer joined, for example remove a cable or turn off power
To end a close relationship and go separate ways
To move away from people or a place to create space
To stop being part of or connected to something
Leave an activity or agreement you had joined
Keep away from someone or something to show no connection
To separate yourself completely from someone or something
Refuse to accept someone or something and stop having any connection with them
To leave an organization and form a separate group
End a relationship with someone or something in a clear, final way
To come apart from something it is connected to
To leave a group and form a smaller, separate one often after disagreement
To stop depending on someone or something and become independent
Disconnect parts that were joined so they work independently
To stop being involved with a person, group, or idea
To become loose and separate from something
To free someone or something from limits so they can act more freely
To stop being a member of a group or organization
To stop feeling close to someone or something
To free a person or thing from a difficult situation
Stop seeing yourself as part of a group or role
Antonyms
How Detached
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Disassociate starts with dis- meaning 'apart' and the part associate meaning 'to join or connect', the same root you see in social and society. So, to disassociate is to move 'apart' from a person, group, or idea and end that connection.