disassociate

1. 1.

   part; cease or break association with

   “She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president”

   Synonymsdissociatedivorcedisunitedisjoint

   Broaderseparate

Other forms of disassociate

past tense

disassociated·

present participle

disassociating·

third person

disassociates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disassociate

What does disassociate mean?

disassociate means "part; cease or break association with".

How many syllables are in disassociate?

disassociate has 5 syllables: dis-as-so-ci-ate. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˌdɪsəˈsoʊʃieɪt/.

What is another word for disassociate?

Close synonyms include dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disassociate a common word?

disassociate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.